I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

  • -- Eric Temple Bell 埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔

我一向讨厌机器,而我唯一能理解的机器就是独轮手推车,这一点我不太了解。

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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

我知道如果我每六个月或每年写一本新书,如果我继续读好书,最终我会写出一些值得出版的东西。我知道我可能在四十多岁,五十多岁,甚至六十多岁,但我相信这将会发生。

The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined.

支持劳动力的资本和投资于工具、机械和建筑的资本的比例也可以不同地组合起来。

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

我从来不理解没有书架的人。