There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

  • -- Tom Clancy 汤姆·克兰西

曾经指甲是高科技的。曾经有一段时间,人们必须被告知如何使用电话。技术只是一种工具。人们使用工具来改善他们的生活。

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Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass

重力把我们的体液往下拉,就像玻璃杯里的水会流到玻璃杯的底部一样。在太空中,水不会停留在玻璃杯的底部。随着时间的推移,它均匀地分布在整个玻璃体积中

I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip.

我更像是男人的女人。我喜欢在酒吧里喝啤酒,我不会斗嘴,也不会坐下来修指甲。但我有两个姐妹和一个母亲,我们是拉丁人,所以我们闲聊。

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

技术为我们提供了减少时间和距离障碍的设施——电报和电缆、电话、收音机等等。

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

当我年轻的时候,我发现我所做的十件事中有九件是失败的。我不想失败,所以我做了十倍的工作。

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

人就像钉子一样,一旦失去方向,开始弯曲,就失去了效力。

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

我经历过所有已知的电话故障,没有一个比电话故障更严重。

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

内部化在这个国家被用作一种非常有效的政治工具。

Whenever I see his finger nails, I thank God I don't have to look at his feet.

每当我看到他的指甲,我感谢上帝,我不用看他的脚。