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地球
Earth
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
让我们不要忘记，耕种土地是人类最重要的劳动。当耕作开始时，其他的艺术也会随之而来。因此，农民是文明的奠基人。
For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.
因为一个国家不仅仅是一块土地;首先，它是一个社会、文化和历史因素的纲要，这些因素通过写作的过程开始获得意义和秩序。
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
年轻人把他的材料收集起来，建造了一座通向月球的桥，或者，也许是地球上的一座宫殿或寺庙，最后，中年人决定和他们一起建造一座木棚。
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
正如地球艺术和装置艺术的发展源于将艺术带出画廊的想法，我参与公共艺术的基础是对墙壁绘画的延续。
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
没有丑陋的语言这种东西。今天，我听到每一种语言，仿佛它是唯一的一种;当我听到一种即将消亡的语言时，它使我不知所措，仿佛它是地球的死亡。
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
如果一个人决定着手去做，世上没有什么比忘记更容易的了。我相信我已经把你那可怜的亲爱的舅父忘得一干二净，好象他从来没有存在过似的。我认为这样做是我的责任。
The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?
在我看来，地球在我们死后还会存在。即使这是一个被污染的星球，他们把它搞砸了。它们从这里到另一个星球去了哪里?
Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
两千年前，在这个地球上，有一个人过着迄今为止最伟大的生活——每一个有思想的人，不论其意义是深是浅，都一致认为这种生活是神圣的。
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
生命的稳定，地球的不变使我感到安慰。在知识的发展过程中，似乎是新鲜而可怕的东西占据了一席之地。了解我们的宇宙是件好事。新事物对我们来说只是新事物。
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
为什么没有人看到化石本身就产生了一种关于地球形成的理论呢?如果没有化石，没有人会想到地球的形成会有连续的时代。
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
土地:地球表面的一部分，被认为是财产。土地是私人所有和控制的财产，这一理论是现代社会的基础，尤其值得上层建筑借鉴。
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
时间是世界上最宝贵的东西:思考的时间，行动的时间，扩展我们兄弟关系的时间，成为更好的男人的时间，成为更好的女人的时间，成为更好的和更独立的公民的时间。
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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
祖父，伟大的灵魂，再一次看到我在地球上，俯身倾听我微弱的声音。
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
天容不下两个太阳，地也容不下两个主人。
I wish I'd done everything on earth with you.
我希望我和你一起做了世界上所有的事。
The fire burns brightest on one's own hearth.
自家壁炉里的火烧得最旺。
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
求你给我站住的地方，我就使地震动。
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
地球能满足每个人的需要，但不能满足每个人的贪婪。