Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.

  • -- Richard Owen 理查德·欧文

居维叶在拉马克之前就说明了变异的种类和程度,他自己的观察和对别人报告的批判性判断使他承认了这一点。

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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

我认为,在权力走廊里,这些危险的命令以一种更加模糊的方式下达,在下达给刺客之前,要经过两三个级别的命令。

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

我相信普特南是对的,像保龄球联盟这样的组织在减少。但是人们以其他方式参与社区。

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

很少有人在谈话中令人愉快的原因是,每个人都在想自己要说什么,而不是别人在说什么。

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

有时我们不得不做的事情在别人眼里是令人反感的。