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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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

我认为我为比我想象中更多的人写作的想法已经产生了一种文学和政治上的普遍责任。我甚至有一种自豪感,因为我不想落后于我以前所做的。

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

有一种恐惧,接近恐慌,正在婴儿潮一代中蔓延,他们突然发现必须为自己的退休生活做准备。

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

自从穴居人在墙上作画以来,这种或那种视觉叙事就一直存在。

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.

越来越多的人正在慢慢地但肯定地将他们的耳朵转向诗歌。

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

喜剧需要非常特殊的技巧,特殊的技巧。

No one ever takes my side.

从来没有人站在我这一边。