There is a better reason for studying zoology than its possible ‘usefulness’, and the general likeableness of animals. This reason is that we animals are the most complicated and perfectly designed pieces of machinery in the known universe. Put it like that, and it is hard to see why anybody studies anything else!

  • -- Richard Dawkins 理查德·道金斯

研究动物学有一个比它可能的“有用性”和动物的普遍可爱性更好的理由。这是因为我们动物是已知宇宙中最复杂、设计最完美的机器。这么说吧,很难理解为什么有人要学习其他东西!

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I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.

我用我的下午绘画和工作,我的开放的心珠宝行凯珠宝商。我设计了一幅心脏没有完全闭合的图像。我妈妈总是告诉我要心胸开阔地生活——当生活变得艰难时,你应该出去帮助别人。

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

声名狼藉的瘟疫!我再也不敢在没有护送的情况下过马路了,我走到哪里都被人盯着看,就像皇室的白痴成员或动物园里的动物一样;动物园里的动物也会死于凝视。

So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better.

所以,我不仅在周末感到恐慌,如果我需要知道我的台词,而且如果我能把孩子们带到动物园。我能去教堂吗?我想要的是一些能让我更好地规划生活的东西。

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

去年,国会授权国防部为其雇员设计一个新的文职人员系统,作为国防授权法案的一部分。