And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

  • -- George Chapman 乔治·查普曼

让一个学者携带地球上所有的书籍,他将只是一本活字典:仅仅是一个发音清晰的时钟。

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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

这个字典的问题是,你必须先知道一个字是怎么拼写的,然后才能去查这个字是怎么拼写的。

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

正如人类活动正在扰乱地球的碳循环一样,我们的行为也在改变着水循环。

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

自然是一本字典;人们可以从中提取词语。

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

世界上最容易做的事不是写作。