The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

  • -- Asa Gray ASA灰色

现在最好的意见是,有许多形态没有足够的区别来区分植物或动物,而就普通的植物和动物而言,给它们下一个定义比以往任何时候都困难得多。

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Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll.

钱必须以俱乐部认为应该的方式投入。如果你把钱放在一个新的棒球场,这有助于产生收入,所以你可以花更多的钱。这笔钱应该花在使俱乐部的运作达到最佳水平上。这最终会有所帮助,也意味着工资水平的提高。

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

许多年前,人们就知道植物和动物是由不同的物质组成的:植物是由三种元素组成的化学物质——碳、氢和氧;四种元素之一的动物,氮被添加到其他三种元素中。

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

人们认为虐待穷人就是虐待动物。他们从不认为平等是不公平的;不,这是对同志的背叛。

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

幸福是一个人最普通、最日常的意识模式,忙碌、活泼、不关心自己。

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

从我们能肯定智力的最低等动物到人类,我们都发现了这种智力。

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

我想我喜欢做的是从平凡开始,在平凡中发现非凡。

When you play against the best, it brings the best out in everybody.

当你和最好的球员比赛时,每个人都会发挥出最好的一面。