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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There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you go to someone's house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person.

这一地区有很多公司的人造树叶都做得很好,但我想把它和你去别人家吃饭的时候做个比较。如果有一种插花是假的,它会让我对那个人有不同的看法。

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?

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

皮草与其他由动物制成的材料,如皮革,在道德上没有区别,而皮革也是众生受苦和死亡的结果。

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

动物用它们的排泄物勾勒出它们的领地,人类用墨水在纸上勾勒出它们的领地。

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

我喜欢在户外和大自然一起工作。它的基本方面。它的物质性。

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 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。