Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

  • -- Edward Gibbon 爱德华·吉本

由于缺乏独到的学识,没有形成良好的思维习惯,对写作艺术一窍不通,我决定写一本书。

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Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

人们曾试图通过研究突变所产生的变化来获得不同三胞胎中碱基的相对顺序,但我个人的观点是,在有关于三胞胎组成的更广泛和更可靠的数据之前,这些都还为时过早。

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

我在音乐和作曲方面的训练使我进入了一种音乐语言的过程,例如,我演奏的单词的声音不得不违背它们的本意。

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

我想说,法律是建立在文科的基础上的。它使用说服和改变定义的词语来达到实际目的。

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

唯一妨碍我学习的是我的教育。

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

在任何一门艺术中,你都不会停止学习。

I love learning new techniques.

我喜欢学习新技术。