Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

  • -- T. E. Lawrence 阿拉伯的劳伦斯

世人把旷野看作不毛之地,任意选择的人都可以自由居住;但事实上,每座山和山谷中都有一个人,他是公认的主人,他会迅速维护他的家庭或宗族对它的权利,以抵抗侵略。

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You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

你不能简单地把新东西放到一个地方。你必须吸收你周围看到的东西,土地上存在的东西,然后用这些知识和当代思维来解释你看到的东西。

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

因此,缺乏才能的学生将不会从这项工作中获得更多的利润,就像从一篇农业论文中获得贫瘠的土壤一样。

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

对于我们每一个似乎有过成功实验的人来说,他们自己的实验对许多人来说似乎是空洞和消极的。

There was nothing noble-minded men could not do when they discovered they could slap time on their wrists just like that.

当高尚的人发现他们可以这样打发时间时,没有什么是做不到的。

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

鱼生活在海里,就像人生活在陆地上一样;大的吃掉小的。

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

除非女人像男人一样有野心,否则她们不会像男人一样取得那么多的成就。