Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

  • -- Fritz Kreisler 克莱斯勒

人类的神经很快就适应了最不寻常的情况和环境。我注意到,尽管我们周围的大炮轰鸣,弹片在我们头上嗖嗖作响,但还是有相当多的人在战壕里精疲力竭地睡着了。

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Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.

在我们的花园和社区种植本土物种越来越重要,因为本土昆虫、鸟类和野生动物都依赖它们。在数千年,有时甚至是数百万年的时间里,它们共同进化,适应了当地的气候和土壤条件。

At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.

有时,你觉得自己是唯一一个站出来改善人们工作条件的人,无论是为了集体谈判,为了获得足够的工资,还是为了知道你可以安全走出煤矿回家。

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

坚不可摧是一:它是每一个个体的人,同时也是所有人的共性,因此人类之间存在着不可比拟的不可分割的统一。

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

正如人类活动正在扰乱地球的碳循环一样,我们的行为也在改变着水循环。

I'm a little unusual: I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert.

我有点不寻常:我是一个六个人或更少外向的人。