A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
适应
Adaptation
The world hasn't shrunk to a wedge.
世界并没有缩小到一个楔子。
One can even get used to living in Hell.
一个人甚至可以习惯生活在地狱。
Wheat stalks heavy with grain learn how to bow their heads.
麦秆上堆满了谷物,学习如何低头。
Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
奇怪的是,人类的身体和大脑似乎在气候适应方面存在差异。
People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
人们似乎已经习惯了一切,从适应到依恋是一个很短的过程。
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
大多数电影都植根于一本书或连环漫画,但我并没有说我想做改编。
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
每一部改编剧本都需要编剧做出艰难的选择,尤其是艰难的剪辑。
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
要找到象这种对环境的适应这样广泛而一致的特征的根源,我们必须追溯到人类的起源。