Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

  • -- Asa Gray ASA灰色

许多年前,人们就知道植物和动物是由不同的物质组成的:植物是由三种元素组成的化学物质——碳、氢和氧;四种元素之一的动物,氮被添加到其他三种元素中。

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There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you go to someone's house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person.

这一地区有很多公司的人造树叶都做得很好,但我想把它和你去别人家吃饭的时候做个比较。如果有一种插花是假的,它会让我对那个人有不同的看法。

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

事物、身体、物质,除了元素的组合——颜色、声音等等——除了它们所谓的属性之外,什么也不是。

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.

我喜欢所有这些小动物,它们会跑,会吃,会藏。我喜欢他们的脸,他们看起来既害怕又好奇。

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

我们的动物。我们和其他哺乳动物一样,一生都生活在伪装的动物思想中。

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

身体不产生感觉,但是元素的复合物(感觉的复合物)构成了身体。

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

上帝在矿物中沉睡,在植物中醒来,在动物中行走,在人类中思考。

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

让你的灵魂冷静沉着地站在万千宇宙面前。

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

幸福由避免的不幸组成。