Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.

  • -- Chauncey Wright 他的学生赖特

自然选择从来没有让一块没有支撑的石头向下移动而不是向上移动成为自然的一种习惯。它并不适用于无机自然的任何部分,甚至在有机生命的现象中也非常有限。

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The greatest difficulty in the breaking of habits lies in their having come to seem the natural way of reacting, so that even though we tell ourselves that we should break the habit, we do not essentially believe that we should.

打破习惯的最大困难在于它们似乎已成为一种自然的反应方式,因此,即使我们告诉自己应该改掉这个习惯,但实际上我们并不认为我们应该这样做。

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

坏习惯一旦养成,要想改掉就难了。

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

我与故事的选择无关。我是记者。

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.

船员的选择一直是个谜。