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.

  • -- William Falconer 威廉·法尔科纳

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。

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At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

目前,我主要观察山、水、树、花的物理运动。到处都能让人想起人体中类似的运动,想起植物中类似的欢乐和痛苦的冲动。

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。

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

这些措施可能不构成对和平的绝对保证,但我认为,它们是各国有史以来采取的最伟大的预防性措施。

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

如果最伟大的上帝是所有运动加起来的静止,那么我们就不可避免地要包括在内。

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

我不受任何其他电影公司的技术或时尚的影响。