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实验
Experiment
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
对诗人来说，在诗歌中描写诗人是一项危险的实验;在谈到自己的职业时，幽默感和一点善意的冷嘲热讽并没有错。
You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.
你将不得不自己去试验和尝试，你将不确定你在做什么。没关系，你是在摸索。
I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.
我认为，如果你在创作一部新的音乐剧，你想要有机会去尝试，而不是让整个城市的评论家都盯着你看。
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
在实验结束后打电话给统计学家，可能仅仅是让他做一个尸检:他或许能够说出实验的死因。
I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.
我很高兴地发现，一旦我有了唱片，音乐视频就开始出现了，所以我自己导演了一些音乐视频，并开始在其他领域进行试验。
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
人类在这个星球上的大多数问题，在人类漫长的历史长河中，都是通过基于常识和勇气的实验，部分地或整体地解决了。
Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
昨天早上，我以我曾经拥有的一种才能为消遣，但我却把它忽略了，我的表演几乎可以被称为一种试验。我给其中一个女人裁剪了一件衣服。
It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past.
这将是一个如何运作的实验，我有充分的理由相信它会运作得很好。但时间很短。我们也已经超越了过去的做法。
Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings.
单身人士需要回来。在我的在线实验中，我试图为自己改变规则，让那些决定支持我的录音的人，能够更有规律地获得我的劳动成果。
I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
我认为，弱势群体、年轻人和少数族裔是你需要照顾的，这样才能获得一个健康的创作环境，才能有很多选择，有很多不同风格的音乐，有很多其他人赖以为生的实验性的东西。
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
我为我的国家的自由而哭泣，当我看到在这个成功的试验的早期，腐败已被归咎于许多众议院议员，人民的权利已被用来换取执政的承诺。
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
在发现秘密的事物和研究隐藏的原因时，从可靠的实验和论证中得到的理由比从一般哲学投机者的推测和意见中得到的理由更充分。
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
这一结果通过不同的实验安排得到了不同研究者的证实。
A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
傻瓜是一生中从未做过实验的人。
Every great inspiration is but an experiment.
每一个伟大的灵感都只是一个实验。
I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.
我相信，为了全人类的利益，遭受这种创伤的人们将非常愿意在一项安全、无痛的实验中进行合作。
The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.
地球上所有的氢都有可能被瞬间转化，整个实验的成功也将作为一颗新星向宇宙宣告。
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
我是我自己的实验。我是我自己的艺术品。