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.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

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。

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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

一个好的领导者的天才之处在于,他留下了一个没有天才风度的常识可以成功处理的局面。

It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.

我们所有人都清楚,一个球员永远不应该离开赛场而进入看台。

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

人口的力量永远大于地球上生产人类生存所需的力量。

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

一般人不知道发生了什么,甚至不知道自己不知道。

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

对我来说,我一直把拍戏当成我的学校,因为我从十岁就开始工作了。

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

通过不上学,我了解到世界是一个美丽的地方,需要被发现。

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

做一个伟大的人,为自己做一个圣人,这是唯一重要的事情。

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

我的家庭只是一个普通的家庭。但是他们都很有幽默感。