If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

  • -- Simon Conway Morris 莫里斯

如果有一个明确的前景,这些邪恶是野蛮人过去的一部分,那么至少我们可能会找到一点安慰。这样的前景是不存在的:甚至没有任何科学分析能够对过去和现在人类行为的恐怖做出哪怕是一丁点的回答或解释。

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But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

但是,为工业规模的化学过程设计化工厂的前景似乎远没有生物系统中发生的化学事件那么有趣。

I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.

在我看来,担任劳工部长是一个很好的机会,可以推进我毕生为之奋斗的政策,我必须抓住这个机会。

I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way.

我没有想过,‘我想演戏剧或喜剧’——我当时不是很清楚。

Europe should speak more effectively and clearly with one voice in the world.

欧洲应该更有效、更清晰地在世界上发出同一个声音。