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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The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

你头骨中三磅重的器官——粉红色的果冻状——是一种外星的计算材料。它是由小型化的、自配置的部件组成的,它大大超过了我们所梦想的任何构建。

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

我们脚下的大地,植物和生物,头顶上的云彩不断地融化成新的形状——大自然的每一份礼物都拥有自己的辐射能,被宇宙的和谐联系在一起。

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。

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

在某种古老的传奇故事中,动物是程式化的角色——程式化是因为即使是最敏锐的动物,在扮演自己的角色时也没有多少回旋的余地。

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

你的大脑会想出最疯狂的主意来吸引人们去剧院,然后你就围绕着这些元素写剧本。

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

低级动物的智力,就像人类的许多智力一样,不涉及自我。

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

我非常熟悉我的玉米植株,我发现认识它们是一种极大的乐趣。

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

我从来都不是一个快速的作家,但是我非常小心和努力地写作。