| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: reason why in the New Testament (Greek) should always be rendered
'righteousness,' or (Greek) 'covenant.' In such cases the translator may
be allowed to employ two words--sometimes when the two meanings occur in
the same passage, varying them by an 'or'--e.g. (Greek), 'science' or
'knowledge,' (Greek), 'idea' or 'class,' (Greek), 'temperance' or
'prudence,'--at the point where the change of meaning occurs. If
translations are intended not for the Greek scholar but for the general
reader, their worst fault will be that they sacrifice the general effect
and meaning to the over-precise rendering of words and forms of speech.
(8) There is no kind of literature in English which corresponds to the
Greek Dialogue; nor is the English language easily adapted to it. The
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: figure swung with him--always just behind the giant
shoulder--and ever and ever he drew the great arched
neck farther and farther to the right.
As the animal plunged hither and thither in great
leaps he dragged the boy with him, but all his mighty
efforts were unavailing to loosen the grip upon mane
and withers. Suddenly he reared straight into the air
carrying the youth with him, then with a vicious lunge
he threw himself backward upon the ground.
"It's death!" exclaimed one of the knights, "he will
kill the youth yet, Beauchamp."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "And now, my dear Cardillac, you must tell us of your great deeds
here," said the detective in a friendly tone.
The unfortunate man bent over him with shining eyes and whispered:
"But you'll shoot him first, won't you?"
"Why should I shoot him?"
"Because he won't let me say a word without beating me. He is so
cruel. He sticks pins into me if I don't do what he wants."
"Why didn't you tell the doctor?"
"Gyuri would have treated me worse than ever then. I am a coward,
sir, I'm so afraid of pain and he knew that - he knew that I was
afraid of being hurt and that I'd always do what he asked of me.
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