If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

  • -- Robert Grosseteste 罗伯特·格罗斯泰斯特

你若知道每种谷种你种了多少亩,就可以问那地的土产有多少亩可以种,也可以数一数四分之一种的子粒,便知道子粒的结果,和应当怎样了结。

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The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

不同之处在于,对于一个构思良好、天赋深厚的共和国来说,这些种子发芽和植物生长所需的时间要长得多。

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

我们把有机秩序定义为在各部分的需要和整体的需要之间达到完美平衡的秩序。

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.

我们要做的是,在一天结束的时候,为他们提供一个连贯的形式,在重大事件上,给他们他们应得的背景。

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

大多数人都死了。你知道吗?的确,在所有曾经的人中,几乎所有的人都死了。

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

你是否曾经爱过一个人,完全地爱着她,但却因为生活的原因不得不结束这段关系?

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

教书需要很多精力。