Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  • -- John William Gardner 约翰·威廉·加德纳

今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候,却给他们插花。

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The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

现在最好的意见是,有许多形态没有足够的区别来区分植物或动物,而就普通的植物和动物而言,给它们下一个定义比以往任何时候都困难得多。

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.

大约三星期前,在某某村的最高法院开庭期间,村里的主要街道上聚集了许多人。

It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people will be standing in front of something going on like live music, and there's a camera in front of their face.

观察人们对新音乐、旧音乐的反应,以及现代年轻人如何站在现场音乐等正在发生的事情面前,在他们面前有一台摄像机,这真的很有趣。

Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

教音乐不是我的主要目的。我想成为好公民。如果孩子从出生那天就能听到好听的音乐,并学会演奏,他们就会变得敏感、自律和耐力。他们有一颗美丽的心。

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

我们应该为年老做好准备,这样,这个世界就不会迫切需要从对下一个世界的冥想中吸收老年。看到老态龙钟的瘦削的手在坟墓上做棺材是可怕的。

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

严重性应立即处理,以便他们的突然可能给较少的冒犯;福利应该一点一滴地发放,这样人们才会更加珍惜。

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

但是,在那种艰苦的环境中,一个人靠写作谋生的想法似乎是那么的不可思议,以至于即使在今天,我有时也会有一种不真实的感觉。

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

很多时候,机会来了,但是当你推开链子,推开门闩,打开两把锁,关掉防盗警报器的时候,已经太晚了。

The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

不同之处在于,对于一个构思良好、天赋深厚的共和国来说,这些种子发芽和植物生长所需的时间要长得多。

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

我喜欢戏剧,我会剪掉所有其他的对话,做很长的独白,因为我觉得其他孩子不像我一样认真对待它。

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

不可忘记的是,我们所谓的信仰的理性基础,往往是为我们的本能辩护的极度非理性的尝试。

You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.

你可以品尝不同年份的葡萄酒,我们用音乐来做这件事,让他们体验一下过去的旅程。

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

我可以做最神奇的事情。我们经常称它为“处于危险中的主人”,因为人们喜欢看到我冒着生命危险或处于危险之中。

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

对我们的朋友来说,重要的是要相信我们对他们是毫无保留的坦诚,而对友谊来说,重要的是我们不是。

I have so much to talk about. I have so much to share. There are so many different emotions going on inside of me right now.

我有很多话要说。我有很多东西要分享。现在我的内心有很多不同的情绪。

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

土拨鼠很擅长躲避。如果有人想要抓土拨鼠,他们就会去挖洞。

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

我喜欢给年轻女性自信的感觉。这听起来太老套了,但却非常感人。

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

世界历史上最伟大的国家遭受袭击。所以所有这些在今天都没有多大意义。

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

而且我和所有的工作室都保持着良好的关系,所以坦白地说,我从来没有被强迫去剪辑。

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

只有艺术家才能看到灵魂。但当他告诉大家他们出现在他面前时,每个人都看到了他们。

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That or a kick-ass red lipstick.

对我来说,美丽就是对自己的皮肤感到舒适。或者是非常棒的红色唇膏。

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

伟大的感情常表现为错误,伟大的信仰常表现为幻想。

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

统计数据的使用很像醉汉使用灯柱:用于支撑,而不是照明。

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.

有些危险是不能接受的:对人类的毁灭是其中之一。

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

唯一妨碍我学习的是我的教育。

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

国家就像人一样,是由人的性格发展而来的。

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

仁爱始于家,但不应止于家。

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

生活已经成为一种意识形态,它自己的缺席。

I feel too fat to have an eating disorder.

我觉得太胖了,不能有饮食失调。

Use plants to bring life.

用植物带来生命。