Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about.

  • -- Niccolò Machiavelli 尼科尔·马基雅维利

许多人设想了从未在现实中出现过或知道存在过的共和国和君主国;因为我们所行的与所当行的相距甚远,那弃绝已经行的,只取应该行的,反倒要成就。

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We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.

我们希望我们能更好。事实上,去年我们有一支非常棒的球队。但是你不能就这样把手套扔到外面,然后又和好如初。我们想作为一个团队迈出下一步。

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.

生活在一个完全不同的物理和生物环境中,这样的群体将有独特的机会进入新的利基市场,并选择新的适应途径。

Those innocent screen savers, pictures and games that we once downloaded with abandon have much more ability to play havoc today.

那些我们曾经随意下载的无辜的屏幕保护程序、图片和游戏,如今有了更大的破坏能力。

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

常识告诉我们,地球上的东西只存在一点点,真正的现实只存在于梦里。

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

活得好就是活得不好;如果一个人把生活表达得太好,他就不再生活了。

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

想象力不是艺术家的专利,它在不同程度上属于所有的人。

With a little seed of imagination you can grow a field of hope.

只要一点想象力的种子,你就能种出一片希望的土地。

We have been abandoned by our own country.

我们被自己的国家抛弃了。