Imagine. A man so protective and nervous of his own reputation that he sought to keep some of the ideas he thought might alienate his public silent for 500 years.
想象一下,一个人对自己的声誉如此想要保护、如此紧张,他试图让可能使人们与自己疏远的想法沉默了500年。
He sponsored his own television channel and newspaper, and may have spent some $100m over the years, in gifts and share purchases, to keep dozens of favoured voices from falling silent.
他拥有自己的电视台和报纸,更在过去数年中投入好几百万美元收购股权,为避免有利的声音慢慢沉默。
I think that the professor, too, intended to keep silent regarding the part he knew, and that he would have destroyed his notes had not sudden death seized him.
我想教授也有此意,据其所知而刻意隐瞒。同时,若不是突然而至的死亡,他亦当摧毁个人手记。
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