The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.

  • -- Peter Raymond Grant 彼得·雷蒙德·格兰特

形态学在择偶过程中所起的独立作用,可以通过一些罕见的例子来揭示,通常情况下,鸣声和形态学之间的联系被破坏了。

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What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'

更令人不安的是,这些人对公众隐瞒自己的所作所为。比如,他们在发货时把神奇小麦的标签撕掉,然后说,‘小心’。不要种太多,也不要太依赖它。”

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

在预算紧张的时期,必须做出艰难的选择。我们必须确保我们非常有限的资源用于优先事项。我认为,我们的当务之急应该是投资于我们孩子的教室和他们的未来。

I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.

我想最近发生的事情已经证实了我在书中所表达的怀疑,我认为我所指出的一些事情已经更清楚了。例如,我在书中有一部分谈到了酷刑的可能性。

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

我们的生活是我们所做选择的总和。