Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

  • -- Jared Diamond 戴蒙德

几千年前,人类驯养了所有可能的大型野生哺乳动物,满足了所有这些标准,值得驯养。结果,尽管现代科学做出了努力,但在最近的时间里,没有任何有价值的家畜的增加。

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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

和一个女孩跳三次舞,如果你喜欢她的眼神和声音,她气喘吁吁地回答你关于马肉和音乐的小问题,关于男人和女人的事情,那就大胆地跳吧。

While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.

在芝加哥的时候,盖尔曼教授的一门课程激发了我对粒子物理学这一新领域的兴趣。