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学校
School
You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.
你知道,我是学校里的叛逆分子。不管他们说什么,我都没做。我完全反对一切。
Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.
事实上,学校里的孩子们对我的态度并没有因为我上电视而有任何不同。
Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
神创论者们把它说成是一种“理论”,是你喝了一整夜酒后凭空想出来的。
I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.
我在学校演过一两个话剧。我曾经演过树,所以我从来没有想过我会成为一个好演员。
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
我还记得放学回家后扁桃体炎,躺在床上写故事来打发时间。
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
到高中毕业时,我当然不是一个受过教育的人,但我知道如何努力成为一个受过教育的人。
I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.
我在学校里听到了各种各样的虐待用语,可能就像你小时候一样,对它们很纵容。
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
良心是我们灵魂的镜子,它代表了我们生活中的全部错误。
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
他们说,宇宙中没有任何东西能以光速旅行,他们忘记了影子的速度。
In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.
在任何一个小镇,体育对高中来说都是非常重要的,而我并不擅长体育。
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
如果我们希望创造一个新世界,我们已经准备好了材料。第一个也是由混乱构成的。
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
它将把人类从剩余的枷锁中解放出来,这些枷锁仍然把人类和这个星球联系在一起。
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I never dated much in high school or college.
我在高中和大学都没怎么约会过。
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
发现这些基本定律没有逻辑的方法。只有一种直觉的方法,那就是感觉表象背后的秩序。
We had to be down early to get the best stuff for the pros we looked after and then get the rags that we were left ourselves for training. It seems very old school but it grounded me as a person and made me appreciate everything as a footballer, because all we got was a pair of boots.
为了给我们所照顾的职业球员买到最好的东西,我们不得不早早地下山,然后把剩下的衣服拿去训练。这看起来很老套,但它让我作为一个人脚踏实地,让我欣赏作为一个足球运动员的一切,因为我们得到的只是一双靴子。
When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.
当我上学的时候,你必须学习艺术,你必须演奏乐器。你必须演奏乐器。但从那时起,一切都退化了。我不知道我们是什么样的国家,把艺术、音乐和体育从公立学校的课程中剔除。
Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.
无论一个人把世界看作是上帝的创造,还是科学正在探索的一个世俗的谜,从山脉、沙漠、雨林到普通蚊子设计的精美细节,一切都是美丽和威严的,这是不可否认的。
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
总有一天,科学的头脑中会涌现出一种机器或一种力量,它的潜力是那么可怕,那么绝对可怕,甚至连敢于用酷刑和死亡来制造酷刑和死亡的战士,也会感到震惊,从而永远放弃战争。