Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

  • -- William Adams 三浦按针

现在,由于受到这样的恩宠,我学会了一些几何学的知识,用其他的东西来理解数学的艺术,我使他高兴,所以我说的话他不会反对。

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The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

我选择的超能力是同情心。因为这就是我所认为的使它度过一生所需要的——一种理解,一种给予和索取。它节省了大量的怨恨。

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

要使数学得到广泛的理解,我们需要强调它的优雅及其应用。有时候,大学似乎想强调这是多么困难!

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

我们应该把生物多样性的每一小块都当作无价之宝来保护,同时我们要学会利用它,理解它对人类的意义。

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

耶稣哭了。伏尔泰笑了。从那神圣的眼泪和人类的微笑中,产生了现代文明的优雅。

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

雨是恩典;雨是天空俯就大地;没有雨,就没有生命。

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

熟悉数和量的概念并不是数学的本质。

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

优雅而快乐地变老是一种罕见而又困难的成就。

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

女人的优雅比美丽更有效果。