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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Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.

我想每个演员都有自己喜欢的戏份。有些演员喜欢在一个场景里演一整天,有些演员想拍两场。我个人喜欢四个。

There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.

在小学里,同学们会因为画得好而得到很多认可。一个女孩画马画得非常好,人们把她看作是女巫。

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

有一种恐惧,接近恐慌,正在婴儿潮一代中蔓延,他们突然发现必须为自己的退休生活做准备。

The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

不同之处在于,对于一个构思良好、天赋深厚的共和国来说,这些种子发芽和植物生长所需的时间要长得多。

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

没有人用纯洁的眼睛看世界。他看到它被一套明确的习俗、制度和思维方式所编辑。

If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

如果我发现一个投手有热度,曲线好,滑球,我可能会认真考虑嫁给他,或者至少求婚。