I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

  • -- Charles Darwin 查尔斯·达尔文

我把这个原理称为“自然选择原理”,根据这个原理,每一个微小的变化,如果有用的话,都可以用“自然选择”这个词来表示。

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They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

他们偷走了公共土地。他们把一切都掌握在自己手中,他们无原则的贪婪给四千万人民带来了空前的灾难,他们有自然资源来养活、穿衣和庇护整个人类。

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

在物理学中,同时出现在两个地方将是一个奇迹;在政治上,这似乎不仅是正常的,而且是自然的。

The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.

根据他从观察机场布局中获得的信息,魔鬼自己可能已经重新设计了地狱。

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

当我把一个问题弄清楚,弄得筋疲力尽时,我就离开它,以便重新回到黑暗中去。

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

我的意思是说,我只希望他们能找到黑暗或天堂,而不害怕它,如果他们可以的话。

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

我们不能拿着火炬照亮别人的路而不照亮自己的路。