Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

  • -- Roland Joffe 约菲

诗歌应该让读者感到惊奇,而不是感到奇怪,它应该让读者觉得它是他自己最高思想的一种表达,而且几乎是一种回忆。

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Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

水银在容器中没有倾斜度,没有任何反感,甚至没有丝毫的反感,因此,当它进入容器时,它应该上升到足够高的水柱中,使之与迫使它上升的外部空气的重量达到平衡,这难道不奇怪吗?

Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.

最后的想法是如此,你知道,最后的想法。让我们称之为结束语。

I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.

我希望我有话要说不会感到意外。

You can think all you can but don't publicize all your thoughts.

你能想什么就想什么,但不要把你所有的想法都公之于众。