Recently, while extracting money from a Zurich cash machine, I was surprised to find Le Corbusier staring out from a 10-franc note. It turns out he is just one member of a line-up, on notes of various denominations, of Swiss cultural heroes; Arthur Honegger, Sophie Taueber-Arp, Alberto Giacometti, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, and Jacob Burckhardt. Perhaps it is the Swiss National Bank's belated response to Harry time's wicked observation in The Third Man: 'In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.'
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机译：最近，当我从苏黎世的自动提款机上取钱时，我惊讶地发现勒·柯布西耶（Le Corbusier）盯着一张10法郎的钞票。事实证明，他只是瑞士文化英雄各种教派中的一员。亚瑟·洪内格（Arthur Honegger），索菲·陶伯（Sophie Taueber-Arp），阿尔贝托·贾科梅蒂（Alberto Giacometti），查尔斯·费迪南德·拉穆兹（Charles Ferdinand Ramuz）和雅各布·伯克哈特（Jacob Burckhardt）。也许这是瑞士国家银行对哈利时间在《第三个人》中所作的邪恶观察的迟来反应：“在意大利，在波吉亚人统治下的30年间，他们曾发生过战争，恐怖，谋杀，流血事件，但产生了米开朗基罗，达芬奇和复兴。在瑞士，他们有着兄弟般的爱情，他们拥有500年的民主与和平，这产生了什么？布谷鸟钟。
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