A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
植物
Plants
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。
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
一个人至少已经开始发现人类生命的意义，当他种植树荫下，他完全知道他永远不会坐在。
Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.
给孩子们做花园的机会。让他们随心所欲地成长。他们为自己种植好植物比种植好植物更重要。
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。
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。
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
在没有化石植物证据的情况下，假定植物科或任何属曾经是更大、分布更广的，这是合乎哲学的吗?占据了一个连续的区域?
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
我们脚下的大地，植物和生物，头顶上的云彩不断地融化成新的形状——大自然的每一份礼物都拥有自己的辐射能，被宇宙的和谐联系在一起。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
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。
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
他植树是为了造福下一代。
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。