It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

  • -- Robert South 罗伯特南方

扩大乃是想象的工作,缩小乃是判断的工作。因此,这一点必须远远高于另一方面,因为判断是一种比想象或想象更伟大、更高贵的能力。

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By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

通过进一步使用乙醇,农民有机会通过收集农业废料来生产经济作物。

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

无论我们采取行动的危险有多大,无所作为的危险要大得多。

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

你的偶像委散在尘土中了,这可证明神的尘土比你的偶像还伟大。

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

宁可有灵巧的蚂蟥,胜过有五十万战士。