The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

  • -- Robert Grosseteste 罗伯特·格罗斯泰斯特

一千头羊在好草场上的毛,一年至少得五十马克,两千一百马克,依此类推,以千计。

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We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.

在过去一年里,我们面对着比现代任何时候都更加疏远和愤世嫉俗的选民,毫无疑问,明年也将如此。

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.

人们很容易认为政客腐败,投票实质上是两害相权取其轻。我理解这种观点,觉得它是正确的。

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

因为把两者结合在一起是困难的,所以当两者之一必须缺一不可时,害怕比被爱更安全。

There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.

有成千上万的废奴主义者是自由贸易者。

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

漂亮的只有一种,丑陋的有一千种。

Each year is a new year.

每年都是新的一年。