If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

  • -- William Bartram 巴特拉姆

如果我们对动物创造的经济只给予很少的关注,我们就会发现明显的预谋、毅力、决心和完善技巧的例子,以便达到它们的目的。

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It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

在户外与朋友或陌生人讨论这个问题时,我的困难之一是,我很少能就战争的目标达成任何明确的一致意见。

But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.

但很快就确定了动物体内的这种第四纪物质在植物体内的化学成分是相同的,是在植物体内精心配制的,只被动物吸收。

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.

一团红色在错误的地方,观众不是在看英雄,而是在看一块幕布(或类似的东西),你的整个效果就消失了。

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

当我在广播中说一些不真实的东西时,我的意思是它明显不真实。我想人们知道我只是在说些有理有据的话。或者是为了搞笑。

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

与我同行,为我们的环境做出真正的承诺。和我一起踏上宁静之旅,给我们的孩子留下一个平衡的星球。

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

在良好的水和空气中上课;在大自然永恒的青春里,你可以更新你自己。一个人悄悄地走。你不会受到伤害的。

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

如果他们不读书,如果他们不爱读书;如果他们不强迫自己阅读,我不认为他们是真正的作家。

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

归根结底,这是一个注意力的问题:不像电视或收音机,人们很难心不在焉地使用网络。

The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

我最难吸引的女性注意力来自我两岁的女儿。

The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.

我的人生目标是做我孩子的父亲,做我妻子的丈夫。

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

人是高贵的动物,在灰烬中光艳夺目,在坟墓中却趾高气扬。

LIFE: Love, Intelligence, Fun, Evolution in that order.

生活:爱、智慧、乐趣、进化。