We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

  • -- Asa Gray ASA灰色

我们曾说过,生命的规模是如此之小,以致于个体在其整个存在过程中还没有足够的专门化到足以成为独特的植物或动物;然而,这些都是更简单形式的确定的生命。

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Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.

接着,人们发现它在生理和结构上与植物是一样的,它是植物的活的部分,它在植物和动物有机体中表现出生命和工作。

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.

探测原子粒子的照相方法的特殊特点使我们能够确定用其他方法无法识别的物质的瞬态形式的存在。

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

我有点老了,总是在后院修修补补。自从我在户外玩耍长大后,我仍然喜欢种植植物,坐在甲板上,或者去远足。

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history. Whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

今天的问题同历史上所有的问题一样。人类是否应该被允许管理自己或被一小部分精英统治。

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

自我控制意味着想要在我精神存在的无限辐射的某个随机点上有效。

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

买书比读书简单得多,读书比吸收书中的内容容易得多。

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

教育的目的是使青年人作好终生自学的准备。

The simpler it is, the more beautiful it will become.

它越简单,就会变得越漂亮。