Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.

  • -- Mohsin Hamid 莫欣·哈米德

机会在每个人的生活中都扮演着重要的角色——我们的大脑和个性毕竟只是化学汤;这里或那里的几次下降影响巨大,但随着收入水平下降,后果往往会变得更加严重。

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A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

电池的定义是电池的集合。细胞是一罐化学物质。现在的挑战是把一个高能量的电池,以及大量的电池,安全地组合成一个大电池。

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

没有什么比音乐更能把两代人分开了。当一个孩子八九岁的时候,他对自己的音乐产生了一种热情,这种热情甚至超过了他对拖延症和古怪衣服的热情。

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

人们不喜欢后果。他们希望能够自由地生活,做自己想做的事,而不承担任何后果。我们知道生活不是这样的。

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

当我上高中的时候,我开始对细胞化学感兴趣:显微镜下的化学分析,并试图了解细胞的组成。