Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

  • -- Quintilian 昆提利亚语

因此,缺乏才能的学生将不会从这项工作中获得更多的利润,就像从一篇农业论文中获得贫瘠的土壤一样。

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Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.

科学与集体农场和国有农场的实践之间的密切联系为理论知识的发展创造了取之不尽的机会,使我们能够越来越多地了解生物体和土壤的性质。

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

世人把旷野看作不毛之地,任意选择的人都可以自由居住;但事实上,每座山和山谷中都有一个人,他是公认的主人,他会迅速维护他的家庭或宗族对它的权利,以抵抗侵略。

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

我们没有必要吃肉、奶制品或鸡蛋。事实上,这些食物越来越多地与各种人类疾病联系在一起,而畜牧业对地球来说是一场环境灾难。

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

对于我们每一个似乎有过成功实验的人来说,他们自己的实验对许多人来说似乎是空洞和消极的。

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

让企业松绑,让盈利动机肆意妄为,并不是让世界变得更宜居的良方。

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

只有当有钱的阶层认为他们能从中获利时,才会发生对外国的战争。

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

可悲的是,在进步的名义下,我们污染了空气、水、土壤和我们吃的食物。

Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.

农业是最好的,企业是可以接受的,但要避免固定工资。

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

聪明人就是从书中从生活的烦恼中得到安慰。

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

所有人的痛苦都源于不能独自坐在一个安静的房间里。