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。
The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
重要的是，我们现在有了对各种动物、植物、微生物以及人类进行测序的工具。我们还没有完成人类序列并不重要。
There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you go to someone's house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person.
这一地区有很多公司的人造树叶都做得很好，但我想把它和你去别人家吃饭的时候做个比较。如果有一种插花是假的，它会让我对那个人有不同的看法。
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。
It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
人们总是明白，植物和动物虽然在它们的高级代表中是完全对立的，但在它们的低级和较简单的形式中却非常接近对方。但他们被认为不会融合。