We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

  • -- Robert Burton 罗伯特·伯顿

我们可以每年选举市长和官员,但不能选举学者。

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Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.

大学生将会了解到,研究是相对彻底的调查,主要是在图书馆中,对一个适当有限的主题进行调查,并将调查结果以一篇精心组织和记录的篇幅较长的论文的形式展示出来。

The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.

海军发生了很大的变化。相信我,我那个时代的军官并不坏,因为我在许多好军官手下服役。但也有一些不好的。

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

学者们长期以来一直梦想着建立一个包含所有已被写过的东西的通用图书馆。

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

年轻时,白天短,岁月长。年老时,年岁短,白天长。

Each year is a new year.

每年都是新的一年。