The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

  • -- Edward Dahlberg 爱德华·达尔伯格

机器对美德、怜悯和爱情产生了有害的影响,习惯于机器的年轻人会产生惰性和恐惧,他们几乎无能为力。

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The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

主要的原因是一种有害的谎言,传播反对她的存在,即她是劣等的性质。差在什么?在同样有利的条件下,男人做过那个女人不能做的事吗?

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

工具通常比机器简单;它通常是用手,而机器经常是由动物或蒸汽动力移动。

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

据说吃太多生菜会使人“昏昏欲睡”。

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

我不是弹球机里的球。我知道我想要什么。

Every person's every action has an effect.

每个人的每一个行为都有影响。