If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

  • -- Clifford D. Simak 西马克·克利福德

如果有可行的方法,我们可以追溯我们的祖先——你我的祖先——追溯到地球上出现的第一批类似生命的物质。

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I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

我认为语言现象具有基本的重要性。“说”的意思是能够使用某种语法,掌握这种或那种语言的形态,但最重要的是要假定一种文化,支持一种文明的重量。

I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.

我想当我恋爱的时候,我真的很擅长打电话、发传真和拜访,而且我真的为此付出了很多努力。我真的不是那个因为工作而不能工作的人,当我真的离开的时候我很难过。

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

人是一种手段而不是目的,他是达到经济或政治目的的一种手段,而经济或政治目的本身并不是真正的目的,而是达到其他目的的手段,而这些目的反过来又是手段,如此无穷。

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

牧师谴责罪恶,就好像它是每个人都可以得到的。