In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

一般来说,自从烹饪技术进步以来,人类所吃的食物是大自然所需要的两倍。

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But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

但是,当他第一次出发的时候,他认为一切语言的结构上的差别在本质上都是没有根据的,这是没有证据的。这肯定是对待人类常识的一种过于挑剔的方式。

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

人民的声音据说是上帝的声音;而且,无论这句格言被引用和相信的程度有多普遍,它都不符合事实。人民是动荡多变的,他们很少判断或决定正确的。

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

我想几乎每个政治领导人都被告知,他们的下一个演讲是最重要的。

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

工作是医治人间一切病痛和疾苦的万应良药。

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

在爱情中,正如在暴饮暴食中一样,快乐是一件极其精确的事情。

A bellyfull of gluttony will never study willingly.

暴饮暴食的人永远不会愿意学习。