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The simplest things are often the truest.
最简单的事情往往是最真实的。
Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.
有时候,最简单的事情往往是最深刻的。
The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.
需要自我约束的最简单的东西是最难复制的。
Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.
有时候,对一个人来说,最重要的是最简单、最空洞、最实用的东西。
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
知识永远是一个程度的问题:你不能把手指放在最简单的数据上,然后说我们知道这一点。
Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
毫无疑问,这是穿衣品味的最简单法则之一,那就是它不会引起穿者对穿者的过分关注。
The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.
要想让自己的车更安全、更省油,最简单、最简单的方法就是检查轮胎气压。
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
在机构科学的所有改革中,最简单、最廉价的方法就是在科学写作中从被动语态转换为主动语态。
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
对于任何观察到的现象,最简单、心理上最令人满意的解释是,它是以这种方式发生的,因为有人希望它以这种方式发生。
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
当错误养成的习惯被时间固定下来时,最简单的原则在实践中就会变得困难;当偏见扭曲了人们的思想时,最简单的真理就会变得难以接受。
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
最简单的问题也是最深刻的问题。你在哪里出生?你的家在哪里?你要去哪里?你在做什么?偶尔想想这些问题,看看你的答案是否会改变。
Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention. Neither should we hesitate to bring the simplest requests confidently to the Father.
孩子们并不觉得与父母交谈困难或复杂,他们也不会因为把最简单的需求告诉父母而感到尴尬。我们也应该毫不犹豫地把最简单的要求自信地告诉天父。
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Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.
人类对秩序的追求,艺术只是秩序的一种表现形式,这种追求源于整个有机世界的一种类似的普遍倾向;与之并行的,或许还源自于对物理系统中最简单结构状态的追求。