A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

  • -- Charles Babbage 巴贝奇

因此,对促进一项研究和对最完全占用时间的其他工作的职责的促进存在着一种强大的吸引力,而这比任何科学知识对其他工作的促进作用都要小。

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The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.

我第一次在亚特兰大坐车时,看到售票员——所有的售票员都是白人——请一位黑人妇女站起来,坐到靠后的座位上,以便给一位白人男子让座。我还看到白人被要求离开汽车的黑人区。

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

受教育的问题在于它需要很长时间;它占用了你生活中较好的部分,当你完成工作后,你知道,如果你进入银行业,你会受益更多。

I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

我想今天的一些节目已经对我产生了影响,因为我发现自己必须安排好巡演的时间,把它们组合起来,然后再安排好录音的时间。

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

只有那个东西是自由的,它存在于它自己的本性的需要之中,并且是由它自己的行为所决定的。

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo

相识的人很多,征服的人却很少,但出于好奇,我只认识两个——我哭泣的朋友和我追求的姑娘

What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

他从打扮自己的外表上所能抽出的时间,都用来玩忽职守了。

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man

一个不能原谅别人的女人永远只能和一个男人点头之交

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

对我来说,唯一存在的就是商业流行音乐。