I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

  • -- Eli Whitney 伊莱·惠特尼

我现在已经承担了一项严肃的任务,我害怕在给定的时间里,任何人都有能力完成一项更大的任务——但是现在已经太晚了,不能回去了。

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I think people recognize me if I am going out to dinner or if I am staying in a hotel. They are not quite sure at first because I have grown up a lot.

我想如果我出去吃饭或住在旅馆里,人们会认出我来。起初他们不太确定,因为我已经长大了很多。

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

我们必须认识到,我们都是世界各地生命网络的一部分。任何时候你消灭一个物种,后果都是严重的。

We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.

我们很清楚我们面前的任务,这将是一场非常困难的比赛,但这是我们所有人的梦想。

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

在虚构的世界里呆了这么久,我更喜欢读关于真实世界的书。

I shall remember while the light lives yet And in the night time I shall not forget.

我要趁著光明还在,趁著黑夜,不忘记。

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

战争是一件太严肃的事,不能留给军人去干。

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

我必须让自己变得敏锐、有趣和放松。