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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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

我反对自由主义的理由是,自由主义是把最高层次的哲学思想而不是政治原则引入到生活的实际事务中去。

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

市场根据技术的实际效果来判断技术,根据技术是否成功或失败来判断技术。

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

我过去常常根据自己的优势或劣势来区分小说和非小说。