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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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。

But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person.

但这是一个漫长的过程,因为我是一个多才多艺的人。

No matter where life takes me, you'll find with a smile.

无论生活把我带到哪里,你都会发现我的笑容。

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

我认为没有人觉得自己得到了足够的承认。

It takes little effort to watch a man carry a load.

看一个人挑东西不费什么力气。

I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.

我是一个非常注重隐私,非常隐居的人。