If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

  • -- Robert Grosseteste 罗伯特·格罗斯泰斯特

你若知道每种谷种你种了多少亩,就可以问那地的土产有多少亩可以种,也可以数一数四分之一种的子粒,便知道子粒的结果,和应当怎样了结。

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You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

你会想起一些你吃过的最难忘的食物;食物会很好,但它往往是关于定位一个心理记忆和味道是不可避免地联系到所有其他的感官和记忆,所以最终是关于味道。

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

我从我在艾滋病世界的这一伟大冒险中所遇到的人们身上学到的关于爱、无私和人类理解的东西,比我在这个竞争残酷的世界中所经历的一切都要多。

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

语言也是种子,当它们被播下到无形的精神实体中时,它们就会按照它们的种类生长和产生。

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

高成就总是发生在高期望的框架下。

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

老朋友的成长需要很长时间。

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

傻了。要诚实。是善良的。