……从古代到现代,来来回回,似乎已经成为她生活的一部分。对于那些只知其一不知彼的人,她感到颇为遗憾。她认为,能够从人类成就的整个菜单中进行选择比被限制在一个狭窄的范围内要好。
(...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.)