Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

  • -- Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯

大自然在每一个季节,每一次都赋予它自己一些美丽;从早到晚,就像从摇篮到坟墓一样,只是一连串的变化,如此轻柔而容易,我们几乎看不到它们的进展。

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We need heroes, people who can inspire us, help shape us morally, spur us on to purposeful action--and from time to time we are called on to be those heroes, leaders for others, either in a small, day-to-day way, or on the world's larger stage.

我们需要英雄,那些能够激励我们,帮助我们在道德上塑造我们,激励我们采取有目的的行动的人——我们不时被要求成为这些英雄,成为他人的领导者,无论是在日常生活中,还是在世界更大的舞台上。

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

为什么没有人看到化石本身就产生了一种关于地球形成的理论呢?如果没有化石,没有人会想到地球的形成会有连续的时代。

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

年复一年,环境变化是递增的,而且往往在我们的生活中几乎没有记录下来,但从进化或地质角度来看,正在发生的是爆炸性的变化。

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

你必须为你的成功努力工作,你必须有一个稳定的存在。这是秘密。

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

我本应该休假的,但我还在写,而且这则广告已经排好了队。

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

但话虽如此,人们对媒体的态度也发生了翻天覆地的变化。