A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
因此，对促进一项研究和对最完全占用时间的其他工作的职责的促进存在着一种强大的吸引力，而这比任何科学知识对其他工作的促进作用都要小。
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
一个强有力的想法会把它的力量传递给挑战它的人。
A pox of her autumnal face, her pieced beauty!
她那衰老的脸上的痘痘，她那残缺不全的美丽!
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
一个实际的植物学家第一眼就能分辨出地球上不同地区的植物，但他却不知道自己能从哪些标记中发现它们。
A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.
对类型小说的偏爱是一种发展停滞的症状。
A preoccupation with words for their own sake is fatal to good film-making. It’s not what films are for.
专注于文字本身对于一部好电影的制作是致命的。这不是电影的目的。
A prepared heart is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared sermon.
有准备的心比有准备的说教好得多。一颗有准备的心会做一篇有准备的讲道。
A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion.
假设变成了自我反驳的断言。
A pretty face can sometimes hide an evil mind.
漂亮的脸蛋有时能隐藏邪恶的思想。
A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day.
一个漂亮的女孩就像一段旋律，日夜萦绕在你的心头。
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
相当少的弱点和对蜘蛛的恐惧是我们与人类交易中不可缺少的存货。
A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.
首相在处理敏感问题时必须保持一定的平衡。
A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.
一个首相不应该承诺不能实现的事情。
A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.
一个王子可以有一个系着腰带的骑士，一个侯爵，一个公爵，还有一个。但是一个诚实的人是靠他的力量的:凭他的信心，他是不会得逞的。
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
王子从不缺乏违背诺言的正当理由。