The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

  • -- Asa Gray ASA灰色

现在最好的意见是,有许多形态没有足够的区别来区分植物或动物,而就普通的植物和动物而言,给它们下一个定义比以往任何时候都困难得多。

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There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you go to someone's house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person.

这一地区有很多公司的人造树叶都做得很好,但我想把它和你去别人家吃饭的时候做个比较。如果有一种插花是假的,它会让我对那个人有不同的看法。

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

我喜欢动物。我喜欢自然史。旅行不是最重要的。旅行的部分是你必须做的为了去看动物。

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.

我唯一不喜欢的动物是鹦鹉,但我边走边学。我做得越来越好了,真的。

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

如果我们不像关心孩子一样关心我们的植物,我们现在就会生活在杂草丛生的丛林中。

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

普通光子确实有自旋,它们有螺旋性的概念,所以它们在运动时绕着自己的方向旋转。

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

很少有当代艺术家能比奥罗斯科更好地挖掘平凡与奇异之间的空间。

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

如果一个人有勇气承认错误,那么错误总是可以原谅的。

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

好吧,好吧,最好的术语将会过时:该死的家伙已经有他们的时代了。