A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

  • -- Carl Linnaeus 林奈

一个实际的植物学家第一眼就能分辨出地球上不同地区的植物,但他却不知道自己能从哪些标记中发现它们。

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As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

作为一种实际行动的工具,法律对其所处时代的智慧作出反应,虽然这种智慧可能是错误的,但它有时与这种智慧或激情背道而驰,将所接受的价值观发扬光大。

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

不实用并不意味着不值得创造。有时候美和现实生活中的魔法就足够了。

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

法官应该把她眼睛上的绷带取下来,让她有足够的时间分辨出谁是坏人,谁是不幸的人。

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

但我分不清是被人嘲笑,还是被人嘲笑。我要带。