It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

  • -- Gertrude Stein 格特鲁德·斯坦

令人惊讶的是,整个人口对未来没有任何计划,根本没有。这当然是不寻常的,但却是千真万确的。

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The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

一个家庭越穷,必须用于食物的总支出所占的比例就越大。在其他条件相同的情况下,用于食品的支出比例是衡量一个人口物质生活水平的最佳指标。

The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.

大炮轰鸣所产生的道德效果是最不寻常的,我们许多人都认为,我们从来没有听到过比从我们后方传来的轰鸣和撞击声更令人高兴的声音。

I think I usually play the woman that, after the person tries to go for some extraordinary feat of romantic accomplishment, they happily wind up with me.

我想我通常扮演的是这样一个女人,当一个人试图追求一些非凡的浪漫成就时,他们会很高兴地和我在一起。

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

在所有孵化表现完全完成之前,不要计算家禽总数。