There have been times, though, when some believed that science had paved over all the gaps, ending the age of ignorance.

虽然曾经有过数次人们相信科学已经铺平了所有认知的道路，但是最终都结束于无知的年代。

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But I have since come to realize that my abject ignorance was really a gift: to be a literarily inclined illiterate at age 26 is one of the most glorious fates that can befall mortal girl.

但是现在，我意识到我可怜的无知却是一件礼物：对于一个凡间女子来说，26岁时能在文学上倾向于无知，是最荣耀的事情之一。

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At the age of nineteen, despite my ignorance and incompetence, I had genuinely wanted to write: I felt myself an exile, whose one remedy against solitude lay in self-expression.

尽管我十九岁时无知无能，但是那时我真正渴望写作：我相信只有自我表达才能为那段流亡岁月的孤独带来解脱。

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Chart taken from the book Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve, by William A. Fleckenstein with Frederick Sheehan.

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