The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

  • -- William Falconer 威廉·法尔科纳

在某种程度上,数字的积累总是会增加道德败坏,以及由此产生的各种恶习对健康的影响是众所周知的。

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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.

通过不断积累有关基本反应的详细可靠的知识,我们将能够更好地理解、预测和控制许多与时间有关的宏观化学过程,这些过程在自然界或人类社会中是重要的。

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

切鸡来预测未来,如果诚实地做,并且尽可能少地解释,是一种随机化。但鸡内脏很难读懂,也会让人联想到想象力或腐败。

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

西方音乐经典的形成不仅是由于积累,而且是由于反对和颠覆,无论是对作曲家赖以生存的统治力量,还是对其他音乐。

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

我们的国家现在走的道路是如此稳定,以致于表明它将走哪条路走向毁灭,也就是说:首先通过巩固权力,然后是腐败,来显示其必然的后果。