A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
机械
Mechanical
I just write mechanical things.
我只是写一些机械的东西。
If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.
如果你必须摆脱蟑螂,使用机械控制。
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
我教我的学生不要用规则或机械的方式去看东西。
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
语言上的机械困难是思想上的内在困难的结果。
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.
我不想在我和纸之间有任何机械的东西,包括打字机,我甚至不想在我和纸之间有自来水笔。
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
偏见可以说是人类的机械本能:通过他们的偏见,他们不费任何力气就做了许多事情,他们会发现很难想清楚,以至于决定去做这些事情。
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
委员会的性质是有机的而不是机械的:它不是一个结构,而是一个工厂。它生根、成长、开花、枯萎、死亡,播下的种子将由其他委员会轮流开花。