Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?

  • -- Asa Gray ASA灰色

为什么不像现在一样,一开始有那么多矮小的将军,而他们的种类又不相称呢?

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This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.

当这些社会渣子在桥牌俱乐部或一家小杂志出版商的办公室里升到高位时,整个组织偏离其宗旨和理想的现象似乎并不十分严重。

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

在很多人面前你会变得更紧张。这就是为什么,当你演奏协奏曲时,你要和一个小型管弦乐队一起演奏,在一些你不觉得它像卡内基音乐厅那么重要的地方。

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

我认为这幅图显示的一件新鲜事是,孩子对父母的要求在心理上不成比例。父母经常有错,但孩子也有一些工作要做。

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

你们要天天在家里祷告,使你们和呼求神的人一样多。

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

伟人的渺小与其他所有人的不相称,使其显得渺小。

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers.

有时候错误的数字就是正确的数字。