A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  • -- D. Elton Trueblood D.Elton Trueblood公司

一个人至少已经开始发现人类生命的意义,当他种植树荫下,他完全知道他永远不会坐在。

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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

许多年前,人们就知道植物和动物是由不同的物质组成的:植物是由三种元素组成的化学物质——碳、氢和氧;四种元素之一的动物,氮被添加到其他三种元素中。

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

每个士兵必须知道,在他投入战斗之前,他要打的小仗是如何融入全局的,他战斗的成功将如何影响整个战斗。

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

但是友谊是宝贵的,不仅在阴影中,而且在生活的阳光下,由于一个仁慈的安排,生活的大部分是阳光。

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

如果我们不像关心孩子一样关心我们的植物,我们现在就会生活在杂草丛生的丛林中。

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

我知道我是一个酒鬼,因为我全神贯注于是否要提供酒。