Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

  • -- Asa Gray ASA灰色

许多年前,人们就知道植物和动物是由不同的物质组成的:植物是由三种元素组成的化学物质——碳、氢和氧;四种元素之一的动物,氮被添加到其他三种元素中。

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Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?

在没有化石植物证据的情况下,假定植物科或任何属曾经是更大、分布更广的,这是合乎哲学的吗?占据了一个连续的区域?

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候,却给他们插花。

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

我们不会扼杀戏剧,我们不会因为没有鼓励其中最好的部分而真正限制它的吸引力;但是,我们因此培育了最薄弱和最贫穷的因素。

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

音乐家也许是最谦虚的动物,但他也是最自豪的。正是他发明了破坏诗歌的崇高艺术。

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

我最喜欢的科学理论是土星环完全由丢失的航空行李组成。

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

总而言之,天气和爱情是我们永远无法确定的两个因素。

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.

除了像莱西这样的动物,我还没有见过一颗完全没有被破坏的恒星。

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

我从来都不是一个快速的作家,但是我非常小心和努力地写作。