A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
植物
Plants
Use plants to bring life.
用植物带来生命。
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
他植树是为了造福下一代。
One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade.
一代人种树，另一代人乘凉。
Always do your best what you plant now, you will harvest later.
现在种什么，以后就会收获什么。
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
如果你用有机材料培植土壤，植物就会生长得很好。
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
我非常熟悉我的玉米植株，我发现认识它们是一种极大的乐趣。
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
上帝在矿物中沉睡，在植物中醒来，在动物中行走，在人类中思考。
I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.
我从我的父亲那里学到了植物，他是一名草药医生和业余显微镜师。
Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.
发电厂造成的汞污染是一个全国性的问题，需要全国作出反应。
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
只有农民在春天忠实地播种，在秋天收获果实。
A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
做好事永远不会失去;播下礼貌的，收获友谊;播下仁慈的，收获友爱。
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
我是一个城市的孩子，这是真的，但这并不妨碍我享受户外生活，与植物和动物。
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
许多年前，人们就知道植物和动物是由不同的物质组成的:植物是由三种元素组成的化学物质——碳、氢和氧;四种元素之一的动物，氮被添加到其他三种元素中。
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候，却给他们插花。
I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.
我不认为我们会拯救任何东西，如果我们到处谈论拯救植物和动物;我们必须把它转化为对我们有利的东西。
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
我还不知道为什么植物会从地上长出来，为什么会漂浮在小溪里，为什么会爬在岩石上，为什么会从海里滚出来。我被它们的神秘所吸引，被它们的多样性所吸引。它们随处可见，却又神秘莫测。
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
如果我们不像关心孩子一样关心我们的植物，我们现在就会生活在杂草丛生的丛林中。
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
现在最好的意见是，有许多形态没有足够的区别来区分植物或动物，而就普通的植物和动物而言，给它们下一个定义比以往任何时候都困难得多。