Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

  • -- William Petty 威廉·佩蒂

因此,比赛不是对速度快的人,而是对所有人的时间和机会,我把对整体的判断留给正直的人,我永远不会对他们的纠正失去耐心。

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The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.

写小说最难的部分是找到很长的时间来写作:对我来说,这意味着大部分时间都要在周六和周日写作。但我总是在想我的角色,在偷来的瞬间写下我的想法,希望周末到来时我能弄懂它们。

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

对于这一类人,我们可以把它留给改进本国的方言,用借用西方命名法的科学术语来丰富这些方言,并使它们逐渐成为向广大人民传播知识的工具。

Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself.

因此,如果一个人把钱给了别人,条件是在一定的时间内不能取回,那么他就一定可以得到他承认对自己造成的不便的补偿。

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

我一直嫁给同一个男人。有时候我们吵架的样子,你能看出来。

Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew, How pure amang the leaves sae green!

晨露中的那朵玫瑰花蕾,叶子多么纯洁,多么青翠!