At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

  • -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 伊丽莎白·巴雷特·布朗宁

在痛苦的时刻,当写作是不可能的,阅读是不够的,语法和字典是很好的分散注意力。

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Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

人们曾试图通过研究突变所产生的变化来获得不同三胞胎中碱基的相对顺序,但我个人的观点是,在有关于三胞胎组成的更广泛和更可靠的数据之前,这些都还为时过早。

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

首都变成了一个杂草丛生的怪物;就像一个下垂的脑袋,随着时间的推移,身体和四肢会失去营养和支撑。

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

罗马文明在其技术范围内对时间和空间的掌握与我们今天所取得的成就相当。

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

一个派系的窃窃私语不可能压倒一个国家的声音。

I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

我必须说,我总是从表演者的角度来创作音乐。

You cannot take a cow from a man who has none.

你不能从一个没有母牛的人那里得到一头母牛。