Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

凡是新奇的或不寻常的东西,都能在想象中引起一种愉快,因为它能使心灵充满一种愉快的惊奇,满足它的好奇心,使它产生一种以前不曾有过的想法

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If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

如果我们加强我们的努力,我们可以在一两年内有一个克隆婴儿,但我不知道我们是否可以加强我们的努力到那个程度。我们并不是真的有压力要把克隆婴儿送到这个世界上。我们所面临的压力是要接生一个健康的克隆婴儿。

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

想象的作品应该用通俗易懂的语言来写;它们越纯粹是想象出来的,就越需要简单明了。

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

我所做的一切都是我自己创造的世界,有着自己的规则和故事。

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

爱不占有也不被占有,因为爱本身就足够了。

Imagine you were flowing with energy and confidence, free of doubt and fear.

想象你充满活力和自信,没有怀疑和恐惧。

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

我祝你读书如写作一样愉快。

Nothing is important... so everything is important.

没有什么是重要的…所以一切都很重要。