A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
算术
Arithmetic
God does arithmetic.
上帝做算术。
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
音乐是声音的算术，正如光学是光的几何。
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
最难掌握的算术是能让我们计算自己的幸福。
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
在算术计算中节省时间和脑力的愿望，以及消除人类易犯错误的倾向，可能和算术科学本身一样古老。
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
素数与合数的区别问题以及将合数分解为素数因子的问题是算术中最重要和最有用的问题之一。
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
如果科学推理局限于算术的逻辑过程，我们对物理世界的理解就不会走得太远。人们不妨尝试完全利用概率数学来把握扑克游戏。