The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

  • -- Carl Clinton Van Doren 卡尔·克林顿·范多伦

在人们的心目中,密西西比河以西的地区仍然是一片奇特的土地,探险家和旅行家的报告对它进行了虚构,而库珀的大草原几乎没有追随者。

相关名言

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.

现在看来可以肯定的是,任何蛋白质的氨基酸序列都是由特定核酸分子某些区域的碱基序列决定的。

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'

我总是很受欢迎,但我的牙齿真的很糟糕。我被鼓励‘在学校好好表现’,因为没有人会嫁给你!

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

流行音乐总是有它真正可怕的东西。