But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.

  • -- Benjamin Lee Whorf 本杰明·李·沃尔夫

但是,随着时间的推移,很明显,不仅物理情境是一种物理现象,而且这种情境对人们的意义,有时也是一个因素,通过人们的行为,在火灾中起作用。

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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

很明显,怀疑主义虽然对人没有实际的改变,却总是使人感觉更好。

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的:人人生而平等。

Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

当然最成功的是这种聚丙烯椅子。

A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.

高尔夫球场只不过是一个搬到户外的台球室。