In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.

  • -- Charles Lyell 赖尔

在回答时,我只能辩解说,对一项似乎与以往调查的总基调相矛盾的发现,人们自然会很犹豫地接受。

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If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

如果我们最称职的总参谋部官员被告知要制定出他们所能想到的最荒谬的战争高级组织,他们就不会做出比我们目前所拥有的更愚蠢的东西了。

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

语言学必须认识到在语言中普遍存在的规律,并以严格理性的方式,将普遍现象与局限于语言某一分支的现象区分开来。

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

犹豫在出生之前。如果有灵魂的轮回,那么我还没有在最底层。我的人生在出生前就是一场彷徨。

You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

你不需要努力工作来带来情绪。一切都是自然而然的,你就生活在其中。

Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

毫无疑问,贾巴尔是我遇到过的最好的球员。

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.

当我们努力为他人创造光明时,我们自然会照亮自己的道路。