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生物
Creature
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
人是唯一努力超越自己，渴望不可能的事物的生物。
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
这首诗中的这个生物可以用它自己的离心力把自己组合成一个存在。
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
人是充满希望和创造的动物，这两者都掩盖了事情是无法改变的这一观点。
No creature is there crawling on the earth, no bird flying with its wings, but they are nations like unto yourselves.
地上没有爬行的物，没有展翅飞翔的鸟，但他们是与你们相似的民族。
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
艺术家是被恶魔驱使的动物。他不知道他们为什么选择他，而且他通常太忙了，不知道为什么。
I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.
我可以带你去海滩散步，我可以指出任何一种动物，并给你它们的拉丁名字。
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
人类是最高贵的生物，这一点也可以从没有其他生物对这一说法提出异议这一事实推断出来。
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
人类是我们所知道的唯一的生物，当他的自然生命的期限结束时，他会把自己的记忆留在身后。
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
人在很大程度上是一种习惯的动物，他的许多活动或多或少是来自环境刺激的自动反应。
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
人不是环境的创造物，环境是人的创造物。我们是自由的个体，人比物质更强大。
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
除了人类，我不知道世界上还有什么动物会因为过去的痛苦经历而坐在角落里哭泣。
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
人是一种需要秩序但又渴望改变的生物，这是构成他的从众性和定义他的越轨行为的法则的核心的创造性矛盾。
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
书是一种脆弱的生物，它经受着时间的磨损，它害怕啮齿动物、大自然和笨拙的双手。因此，图书馆员不仅要保护图书不受人类的侵害，还要保护图书不受自然的侵害，并把自己的生命奉献给这场与遗忘力量的战争。
I am not a creature of habit.
我不是一个习惯的动物。
We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature.
我们说，‘市场暴跌’，就像某种咆哮的动物。
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
人类是唯一只会消费而不生产的生物。它不产奶，不下蛋，它太弱了，拉不动犁，它跑得不够快，抓不到兔子。然而他是所有动物的主人。
A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.
博览群书的女人是危险的动物。
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
有什么比享受自由带来的快乐更能使人幸福呢?