As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

  • -- Ernst Mayr 迈尔

结果,遗传学家将进化简单地描述为种群中基因频率的变化,完全忽略了进化由两种同时存在但又截然不同的适应和多样化现象组成的事实。

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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

对于这一类人,我们可以把它留给改进本国的方言,用借用西方命名法的科学术语来丰富这些方言,并使它们逐渐成为向广大人民传播知识的工具。

The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.

事实上,我们非常喜欢对方,我们当然也经常在舞台上看到对方,但这意味着我们有更多的时间在一起,这很好。我们高兴极了。

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

“平凡人高于他们的地位”这一抱怨,难道不常以“平凡人低于他们的地位”这一事实为依据吗?

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

人口的力量永远大于地球上生产人类生存所需的力量。