Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

  • -- Charles Babbage 巴贝奇

只要工作本身是轻的,为了节省时间,就有必要增加速度。

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The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

这艘船的重量太大,确实可能使它不能达到最大速度;但当她达到了它,她将通过她自己内在的运动前进,没有获得任何新的速度,或减少她所获得的。

It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.

每年的这个时候,文人就我们应该在暑假读些什么提出建议。这些可怕的清单常常让我对自己的无知感到震惊,但也让我对它们的倡导者的自负感到怀疑。

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

在算术计算中节省时间和脑力的愿望,以及消除人类易犯错误的倾向,可能和算术科学本身一样古老。

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

从经常使用的小仪器转向更大更重要的机器,速度增加所产生的经济效益变得更加显著。

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

一个人可以失败很多次,但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人,他还不是一个失败者。

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

印象主义的;它是绘画中光的诞生。

You have to understand the nature of light.

你必须了解光的本质。