A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
数量
Number
The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
单一世界的产生来自大量的碎片和混乱。
She discovered her real measurements had nothing to do with number or statistics.
她发现她的实际测量结果与数字或统计数据无关。
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
成为一个成功作家的首要秘诀是:嫁给一个英语专业的人。
The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.
因为有神和真理同在,最小的也胜过千万。
We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.
我们要么减少交战数量,要么增加兵力。
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
为自己作判断劳苦的人,实在太少了。
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
你们要天天在家里祷告,使你们和呼求神的人一样多。
During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.
在麦吉尔大学的几年里,我修了很多数学课程,比其他化学专业的学生都多。
I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.
在过去的十年里,我可以用一只手来计算那里的器乐流行的数量。
I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
我可以想象,若干年后,我将创办自己的公司。但现在还不是时候。暂时不会。
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
起初,声学把不同的声音归为只有有限数量的特征特征。
The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.
事实上,在我的职业生涯中,我有很多次坚持自己的立场,我这样做是因为我知道我是对的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.
有人有我的电话号码,他们开始跟踪我。我从来没有回复过他们。我很想回信,但我拒绝了。
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
不要寻求大众的喜爱;它很少是通过诚实合法的手段获得的。只寻求少数人的见证;不要给声音编号,而要给它们称重。
Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.
三千,只是个数字。这只是个游戏。
You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.
你可以问房间里的任何人。我的成绩是这里最差的,但我对每个人都很讨厌,对每个人都大吼大叫,让他们继续干下去。一旦我把它拿回来,我对那些家伙就更糟了。
Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
为什么不像现在一样,一开始有那么多矮小的将军,而他们的种类又不相称呢?
The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
大型博物馆和非营利组织的数量与公司总部的数量相比,简直是天壤之别。