The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

  • -- Fisher Ames 费希尔·埃坶斯

这位先生使我想起了一只老母鸡,它在蛋被取走后还坚持要下蛋。

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Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

达尔文先生指的是每一个物种个体的数量,由于某种原因,这些个体要么在成熟之前死亡,要么在成熟之后不久死亡。

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

最后,由于睡得那么少,读得那么多,他的脑子干瘪了,完全失去了理智。

My mind is telling me to go but my heart is telling me to stay. I have to go my dear, it's the only way.

我的思想告诉我要走,但我的心告诉我要留下。我得走了,亲爱的,这是唯一的路。

No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted.

彼得皈依后,没人再为他担心。你的调查人员可以被说服。

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

我总是设法使背景与我心目中的故事相吻合。