A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

小猫最引人注目的地方是，它总是毫无缘由地跑来跑去，还没跑到那儿就停下来了。

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

小猫在动物界的地位就像花园里的玫瑰花蕾一样。

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

一把刀只有拿在手里的人才算好。

A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.

罢工会使本联盟失去许多有利的东西。

A labouring man that is given to drunkenness shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.

劳碌的人，喝醉了酒，必不富足。轻看小事的，必渐渐跌倒。

A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.

如果一个犯罪头目看上了一个女人，那也不能怪她。

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

淑女是让男人举止像绅士的女人。

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

女人没有什么特别的。一个男人的女人就是另一个男人的女人;有时候，一个男人的女人是另一个男人的妻子。定义有重叠，但几乎从不重合。

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe; she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

也许女士比绅士更聪明;她能缝一条好缝，她能生孩子，她能用直觉而不是大脑，但她不能在拥挤的火车上叠纸。

A lamentable tune is the sweetest music to a woeful mind.

忧伤的曲调是忧伤的心灵最甜美的音乐。

A land of meanness, sophistry and mist.

一片充满卑鄙、诡辩和迷雾的土地。

A lane was made; and Mrs Hominy...came slowly up it, in a procession of one.

形成了一条小巷;和玉米粥夫人……一个接一个慢慢地走上前来。

A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.

一种语言是一种拥有自己的陆军和海军的方言。

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

语言的前提是所有的使用者都拥有这些器官。

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

大部分最有趣的科学家都曾经或多或少地读过很多科幻小说，要么是在他们成为科学家的过程中就已经读过了，要么是在他们后来成为科学家的过程中，因为他们喜欢科幻小说中的观点。