The Bed of Procrustes is a powerful collection of aphorisms and maxims that explores Taleb's philosophy.

《黑天鹅语录》一部强有力的箴言和格言集，探讨了塔雷伯的哲学。

If you're going to act with a categorical imperative so that the maxim doesn't undermine itself.

你要按照对命令去行动，这样准则就会否定其自身。

So you may have heard that old maxim people would tell you that " you can sleep when you're dead" .

你可能听说过一句古老的格言，人们会告诉你“死后自会长眠”。

Wharever happened to the old maxim: " The customer is always right" ?

那句格言怎么说的，" 顾客永远对的" ？

We have listened to the wisdom of an old Russian maxim, and I'm sure you are familiar with it.

我们听过古老的俄罗斯的箴言，我你对它很熟悉。

I think what he's saying is that this is the test, this is the test of whether the maxim corresponds with the categorical imperative.

我认为他说这一个测试，关于这一准则否属于对命令的测试。

You evidently don't believe in the maxim: Act so that every one of your actions is capable of being made into a universal rule.

" 有一句格言你显然并：凡人立身行事，务使每一行为堪为万人楷模。"

We all know the maxim, but it's true.

那句箴言我们都知道 但也实话。

Remember George Orwell's maxim: " Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent."

记住乔治·奥威尔的格言: “如果你能想到一个日常英语中的对等词，就永远要使用外国短语、科学词汇或行话。”

But though he spoke after this fashion there was in his voice no note of disapproval, but a bubble of laughter as though in his heart he were tittering at these admirable maxims.

过乔治勋爵虽然口头上这么说，但在他的声音里却并没有以为然的意思，反却带着一阵格格的笑声，似乎他正在暗自嗤笑这些至理名言。

He would not allow himself to dwell long upon these conjectures, maxims, and hopes, and at twenty minutes to twelve he again went softly to the stable, harnessed the horse, and lit the lamps.

对于他的希望和行为准则之间的矛盾，他没有让自己去长时间多想，十二点差二十分的时候，他又轻轻地来到马厩，给马套上马具，把车灯点上。

And the test, the way we can determine that the false promise is at odds with the categorical imperative is try to universalize it, universalize the maxim upon which you're about to act.

我们可以确定那个虚假承诺并属于对命令的方式或检验，试着将其普遍化，将你要遵守的准则普遍化。

“Nature gave us lips to conceal our teeth, ” ran one popular Victorian maxim, alluding to the fact that before the birth of proper dentistry, mouths were often in a shocking state of hygiene.

“大自然给了我们嘴唇来掩盖我们的牙齿”，这维多利亚时代的一句流行格言，暗指在像样的牙科技术诞生之前，嘴巴往往处于骇人的卫生状态。

He said, " If I universalize the maxim and find that the whole practice of promise keeping would be destroyed if universalized, I must be appealing somehow to consequences if that's the reason not to tell a false promise."

他说道，“如果我将这个准则普遍化，发现整个履行承诺的行为都会因为普遍化而被推翻，那我一定也被这一后果所吸引，只要那说谎的理由。”

Here's your new maxim, repeat it daily: I am this team now, I am this team forever, I was always this team, I will always be this team, my team is forever right, and your team is forever wrong.

这你的新格言，每天都要重复: 现在我这支队伍，我永远这支队伍，我曾经这支队伍，我一直会这支队伍，我的队伍永远正确，而你的队伍永远错误。

They're packed with enlightenment maxims such as " An investment in knowledge pays the best interest" . " Time is money" . and " Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her" . W: These maxims ring a bell now.

他们充满了启蒙的格言，如" 投资于知识会带来最大的利益" ，" 时间就金钱" 和" 倾听理性，否则她会让你感受到她的。" W：这些格言现在敲响了警钟。

If reasoning about the good means that you must have a single principle or rule or maxim or criterion for the good life, that you simply plug in every time you have a disagreement about morality, then the answer is, no.

若解释良善意味着，对美好生活必须建立单一的原则、规则、准则或标准，而每当与道德发生分歧时就只需套用该标准，那么答案否定的。

But they cannot properly be said to have their ministers, without the power of nominating them: it is, therefore, a fundamental maxim in this government, that the people should choose their ministers -- that is, their magistrates.

但，如果那些代理者并非人民所指派，他们便能成为人民的代理者。因此这种政体中存在着一个基本的准则，那就由人民指派自己的代理者，他们被称之为行政官吏。

I'd like to share with you a maxim I thought of the first time I met an IBM mainframe