Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

  • -- Evangelista Torricelli 托里切利福音

水银在容器中没有倾斜度,没有任何反感,甚至没有丝毫的反感,因此,当它进入容器时,它应该上升到足够高的水柱中,使之与迫使它上升的外部空气的重量达到平衡,这难道不奇怪吗?

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We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

换句话说,我们知道一般的情况,在这种情况下,我们所谓的均衡会建立起来,这多少有点误导人,但我们永远不知道,如果市场带来这样一种均衡,会存在什么样的特定价格或工资。

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.

我对经济学产生了兴趣,当我接触到一般经济均衡的数学理论时,这种兴趣变成了毕生的奉献。

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

作为一个母亲,我得到了一个很好的惊喜,因为我认为这将更加困难,并且需要做出更多的调整。

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

有时我认为,如果上帝有时间和意愿的话,小说的存在是为了模仿上帝对我们的看法。

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

我显然很容易在不适合已婚男人的情况下进行社交活动。

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

哲学家加缪和萨特提出了一个问题:一个人是否可以谴责自己。

inclination, there is no such thing as losing a battle to win the war. The battle is the war.

倾向于,没有输掉一场战争就能赢得这场战争。战斗就是战争。

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

惊奇源于惊奇,惊奇止于经验。