𝓩𝓔𝓓666
2015-05-03T16:52:05+00:00
好久没玩文明了。
想起以前一玩就一个通宵的时候，挺怀念。
今天看到这个转一下，个人觉得这些引言很大程度上加深了文明的厚重感跟精致感。
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==远古时代==
·Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God." -Cicero
"自然的一切都有神明的意志留下的烙印." - 西塞罗
[神秘论]
·"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back." - The Buddha
"静坐冥想带来智慧; 缺少冥想必定无知. 要明白是什么使人前行, 又是什么使人后退"
- 佛陀
[冥想学]
·"Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth." - Homer
"诸神在天界永生, 人类在地上行走, 两者全然不同." - 荷马
[多神论]
·Oh farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear. - Virgil
农夫们啊, 我为你们祈求夏季多雨, 冬季干燥. - 维吉尔
[Agriculture 农业]
·If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both. - Native American Saying
同时追逐两只野兔, 你将一无所获. - 美洲原住民谚语
[Hunting 捕猎]
·Put your shoulder to the wheel. - Aesop
用你的肩膀把车轮扛起来. - 伊索寓言《大力神与车夫》
[The Wheel 轮子 ]
·Blessed shall be the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. - The Bible, Deut. 28:4
汝家牲畜之生养, 牛犊之成长, 羊群之繁盛, 都必蒙赐福. - 圣经·申命记 28:4
[Animal Husbandry 家畜驯养]
·Do not throw the arrow which will return against you. - Kurdish Proverb
不要轻易放箭, 如果箭会射向你自身 - 库尔德谚语
[Archery 弓箭]
·The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. -Confucius
移大山始于运小石。 - 孔子
[Mining 采矿]
·It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. - Homer
带着青铜矛的剌伤战死沙场, 是一位年轻人最恰当的归宿. 牺牲让他的一切都充满荣. - 荷马
[Bronze Working 青铜器]
·Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Lao Tzu
授人以鱼, 不如授人以渔. - 老子
[Fishing 渔业]
·If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup." - Turkish proverb
讲真话的人应该一只脚踩在马镫里. - 土耳其谚语
[Horseback Riding 骑术]
·It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls. - Aristophanes
是敌人而不是朋友教育我们: 城市需要建造高墙 - 阿里斯托芬
[Masonry 石工术]
·I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. - The Bible, Exodus
我是耶和华, 你的神. 除了我以外, 你不可有别的神 - 圣经·出埃及记
[Monotheism 一神论]
·Hath not the potter power over the clay, to make one vessel unto honor,and another unto dishonor? - The Bible, Romans
匠人难道没有权柄, 从一团泥里拿一块作成贵重的器皿, 又拿一块作成卑贱的器皿么? - 圣经·罗马书
[Pottery 制陶]
·The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. - The Bible, Numbers
愿主赐福给你, 保护你. 愿主使他的脸光照你, 赐恩给你. 愿主向你仰脸, 赐你平安.- 圣经·民数记
[Priesthood 祭司制度]
·You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails. - Unknown
你不能控制风向, 但可以调整风帆. - 无名氏
[Sailing 航行术]
·True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read. - Pliny the Elder
真正的荣耀在于做值得写的; 写值得看的 - 老普林尼
[Writing 文字]
·You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. - Publius Syrus
趁热打铁才能成功. - 帕布利乌斯·塞鲁斯 (叙利亚作家)
[Iron Working 铁器]
==古典时代==
·"Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for." - George Sand
艺术至上只是一句空话。为了真善美的艺术才是我所追寻的信念。 - 乔治·桑
[Aesthetics 美学]
·Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. - The Buddha
词句有毁灭之力, 亦有拯救之能. 词句既真且善, 便可改变世界. - 佛陀
[Alphabet 字母表]
·For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. - Ecclesiastes
万物皆有定期, 凡事都有定时. - 圣经·传道书
[Calendar 历法]
·To bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, so that the strong should not harm the weak.
-Hammurabi's Code; Prologue
让正义的统治降临大地,使强者不能欺凌弱者. - 汉谟拉比法典, 序言
[Code of Laws 法典]
·The wisest men follow their own direction. - Euripides
有智慧的人自己选择方向 - 欧里庇得斯 (希腊诗人)
[Compass 罗盘]
·And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. -Percy Bysshe Shelley
在那石座上还有这样的铭记: '我是奥西曼德斯, 众王之王: 那些所谓强悍者呵, 谁能和我的业绩相比!' - 珀西·拜什·雪莱
[Construction 建筑构造学]
·Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. - Publius Syrus
物品的价值就是买者愿支付的价格. - 帕布利乌斯·塞鲁斯 (叙利亚作家)
[Currency 货币制度 ]
·All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays manyparts.- William Shakespeare
全世界是一个巨大的舞台, 所有红尘男女均只是演员罢了, 上场下场各有其时, 每个人一生都扮演着许多角色. - 威廉·莎士比亚
[Drama 戏剧]
·If music be the food of love, play on. - William Shakespeare
如果音乐是爱情的食粮, 那么请你继续演奏下去. - 威廉·莎士比亚
[Music 音乐]
·Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Sir Francis Bacon
书有可浅尝者, 有可吞食者, 少数则须咀嚼消化。 - 弗朗西斯·培根爵士
[Literature 文献]
·If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in
mathematics. - Roger Bacon
要使其他学科的内容准确无疑和真实无误, 就应当将数学作为所有知识的基础. - 罗杰·培根 (中世纪英国科学家)
[Mathematics 数学]
·And them that take the sword shall perish by the sword. - The Bible,Matthew
凡动用刀剑者, 必死于刀剑之下. - 圣经·马太福音
[Metal Casting 金属铸造]
·A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. - Herodotus
统治者过多全无益处. 一国应当只有一位统治者, 一位君王. - 希罗多德
[Monarchy 君主制]
==中古时代==
·The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy - Unknown
官僚机构的扩大是为了适应官僚机构扩大的需要 - 无名氏
[Civil Service 文官制度]
·I am the state. - Louis XIV
朕即国家. - 路易十四
[Divine Right 君权神授论]
·Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self;the heavenly by the love of God.
- St. Augustine
两种爱造就了两座城: 自爱所造的尘世之城; 神爱所造的天界之城. - 圣奥古斯丁
[Theology 神学]
·A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-
Exupry
设计师知道自己的作品何时达到完美: 不是当没有更多的部分可以增加时, 而是当没有更多的部分可以删减时.
- 安托瓦尼·德·圣艾修伯里 (法国飞行家)
[Engineering 工程学]
·I will to my lord be true and faithful, and love all which he loves and shun all which he shuns. - Anglo Saxon Oath of Fealty
我将真诚待奉我的领主, 爱他所爱的, 恶他所恶的. - 盎格鲁-撒克逊效忠誓词
[Feudalism 封建制度]
·People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public. -Adam Smith
同一行业的人聚会, 即便是为了嬉戏娱乐, 最终必定以针对公众的密谋而结束 - 亚当·斯密
[Guilds 行会]
·A god from the machine - Menander
机器之中有神灵 - 米南德尔 (希腊诗人)
[Machinery 机械]
·One doesn't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore. - Andre Gide
不想远离海岸线, 就别想发现新陆地.- 安德烈·纪德 (法国小说家)
[Optics 光学]
·I cannot live without books - Thomas Jefferson
没有书我就不能活 - 托马斯·杰弗逊
[Paper 造纸]
·I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle
我通过哲学了解了这一点: 我行事是出于自觉, 他人行事只是因为害怕法律 - 亚里士多德
[Philosophy 哲学]
==启蒙时代==
·There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance. - Ali ibn Abi-Talib
知识即财富, 无知即贫穷. - 阿里·伊本·阿比-塔里布 (阿拉伯诗人)
[Education 教育学]
·Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. - Albert Einstein
复息利率是宇宙中最强大的力量. - 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦
[Economics 经济学]
·Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. - Thomas Jefferson
银行系统比正规军队更难对付. - 托马斯·杰弗逊
[Banking 银行业]
·Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. - Plato
天文学吸引人们仰望上苍, 引导我们了解其他的世界. - 柏拉图
[Astronomy 天文学]
·You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
- Al Capone
说好话的同时拿把枪, 比光说好话能更能得到你想要的. - 艾尔·卡彭 (芝加哥黑帮首领)
[Gunpowder 火药]
·Chemistry means the difference between poverty and starvation and the abundant life. - Robert Brent
化学的产生意味着穷困饥馑与富足安康的分野. - 罗伯特·布伦特
[Chemistry 化学]
·Corporation, noun. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
公司, 名词. 一种精妙的机构, 能带来个人收益, 而无须个人负责. - 安布罗斯·比尔斯 (美国作家)
[Corporation 公司制]
·Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. - Benjamin Franklin
任何社会如果宁愿放弃一些自由以获得一些安全, 就既不会拥有自由, 也不会获得安全. -本杰明·富兰克林
[Liberalism 自由主义 ]
·No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, or in any other way destroyed,except by the lawful judgment of his peers. - The Magna Carta
任何自由人, 未经其他自由人之依法判决, 皆不得被逮捕, 监禁, 或加以任何其他损害. - 英国大宪章
[Constitution 宪法]
·It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. - Winston Churchill
如果不算其它所有曾经实行过的政体, 民主制度就是最糟糕的一种政体. - 温斯顿·丘吉尔
[Democracy 民主主义]
·"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." - John Adams
我们这代人必须学习政治和军事，我们的后代才有机会学习数学和哲学。 - 约翰·亚当斯(美国第二任总统)
[Military Science 军事科学]
·Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. - Sun-Tzu
是故胜兵先胜而后求战, 败兵先战而后求胜. - 孙子
[Military Tradition 军事制度]
·A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him. -Napoleon Bonaparte
一个人不会为了每天半个铜币和一点荣誉而付出自己的生命, 你必须鼓动他的灵魂才能激发他的斗志.
- 拿破仑·波拿巴
[Nationalism 民族主义]
·What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind. -Wendell Phillips
正如火药改变了战争的形式, 印刷机也改变了思想传播的方式. - 温德尔·菲利浦斯 (美国废奴运动领袖)
[Printing Press 印刷机]
·The whole is more than the sum of its parts. - Aristotle
整体大于部分之和. - 亚里士多德
[Replaceable Parts 可更换部件]
·Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. - Mao Zed0ng
枪杆子里出政权. - 毛丄泽东
[Rifling 膛线]
==工业时代==
·I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
我不认为神给予我们感觉, 理性和智慧, 是为了让我们弃之不用. - 伽利略奥·伽利略
[Scientific Method 科学方法]
·To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. - Isaac Newton
每个作用力必定对应一个同样大小的反作用力. - 艾萨克·牛顿
[Physics 物理学]
·Before that steam drill shall beat me down, I'll die with my hammer in my hand. - from "John Henry, the Steel-Driving Man"
若要气钻胜过我, 除非我死把锤扔. - 摘自 "约翰·亨利, 钢铁一般的人" (美国民谣)
[Steel 炼钢]
·Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl. -Frederick the Great
火炮提供一种尊严的手段, 可以用来代替粗俗的怒骂. - 腓特烈大帝
[Artillery 火炮]
·I fooled you, I fooled you, I got pig iron, I got pig iron, I got all pig iron. - Lonnie Donegan, "Rock Island Line"
我骗了你, 我骗了你, 我运的是铁, 我运的是铁, 我运的全都是生铁. - 罗尼·多内甘, "岩石岛铁路" (蓝调歌手)
[Railroad 铁路]
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense. - Napoleon, on Robert Fulton's Steamship
你说你造的船凭甲板下面放把火就能顶风逆水航行? 我没工夫听这种胡说八道. - 拿破仑, 评论罗伯特·富尔顿的汽船
[Steam Power 蒸汽机] (这句超有戏剧性的滑稽效果)
·People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black. - Henry Ford
顾客可以选择任何颜色的 T 型车 - 只要是黑色的. - 亨利·福特
[Assembly Line 生产流水线]
·Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. - E. B.White
要想找寻生活中的一切, 你须乘坐一辆小车前往. - 埃尔文·布鲁克斯·怀特 (美国作家)
[Combustion 内燃机]
·When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. - Dom Helder Camara
当我给穷人食物, 他们说我是圣徒, 当我问穷人为何没食物, 他们说我是共丄产党. -多姆·赫尔德·卡马拉 (巴西大主教)
[Communism 共产主义]
·We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles. -
Thomas Edison
我们要让电变得无比便宜, 以至于只有富人才会点蜡烛. - 托马斯·爱迪生
[Electricity 电学]
·Then one fine mornin' she puts on a New York station. You know her life was saved by Rock 'n' Roll. - The Velvet Underground, "Rock And Roll"
在某天清晨她打开一个纽约电台. 你知道拯救了她生命的就是摇滚 - 地下丝绒, "摇滚" (美国摇滚乐队)
[Radio 无线电]
·The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. - Adolf Hitler
人民大众... 更容易被大的谎言, 而不是小的谎言所欺骗. - 阿道夫·希特勒
[Fascism 法西斯主义]
·If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds. - J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting "The Bhagavad Gita"
如果一千颗太阳同时在天空发光, 就能彰显造物主的荣耀... 我成为了死神, 世界的毁灭者. - 罗伯特·奥本海默, 引自 "博伽梵歌"
[Fission 核裂变]
·There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. - Henry Ford
工业家必须遵守的规矩: 尽可能提高质量, 尽可能降低成本, 尽可能提高薪水. - 亨利·福特
[Industrialism 产业主义]
==信息时代==
·For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. - Leonardo Da Vinci
一旦尝试过飞翔的滋味, 你就会时刻仰视天空, 渴望再次回到那里. - 列奥纳多·达·芬奇
[Flight 航空]
·Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
告诉我你喜欢吃什么, 我就能了解你的为人 - 安特姆·布里亚特·萨瓦伦 (法国美食家)
[Refrigeration 致冷]
·As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - Hippocrates
对于病人, 有两件事要作为惯例 - 一是要救治之, 二是至少不要伤害之. - 希波克拉底 (医学之父)
[Medicine 医学]
·Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. - Bob Edwards
将来如果有父母生下携带严重遗传疾病的孩子, 就是犯罪行为. - 鲍勃·爱德华兹 (美国社会学家)
[Genetics 遗传学]
·We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American Song
我们的土地并非自祖先手中所继承的, 而是从子孙那里所借取的. - 美洲原住民谚语
[Ecology 生态学]
·The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. - Aristotle 整体大于部分之和. - 亚里士多德
[Composites 复合材料]
·I just want to say one word to you. Just one word: plastics. - Calder Willingham, The Graduate
我只想对你说一个词. 就一个词: 塑料. - 卡德尔·威灵汉姆, 电影 "毕业生"
[Plastics 塑料]
·Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. - Steve Wozniak
不要信赖那些大到不能扔出窗子的计算机. - 斯蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克 (苹果电脑创始人之一)
[Computers 电子计算机]
·"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth - [NEWLINE]Put out my hand and touched the Face of God." - John Gillespie Magee, Junior
哦！我已摆脱大地的束缚……伸手触摸上帝的面容。 - 小约翰·吉列斯皮·马吉(加拿大空军飞行员)
[Advanced Flight 先进航空]
·"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws." - Douglas Adams
没有什么跑得比光速更快，坏消息除外——它们服从特殊定律。 - 道格拉斯·亚当斯(美国科幻小说家)
[Laser 激光]
·There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. - Isaac Asimov
科学之光只有一束, 在任何一处闪耀就可照亮一切. - 艾萨克·阿西莫夫
[Fiber Optics 光纤]
·Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
任何一种足够新颖的技术看起来都象是魔法. - 亚瑟·克拉克 (英国科幻作家)
[Fusion 核聚变]
·The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde
比遭人议论更糟糕的唯一一件事就是无人议论. - 奥斯卡·王尔德
[Mass Media 大众传媒]
·The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do. - B.F. Skinner
真正的问题不是机器能否思考, 而是人能否思考. - 史金那 (美国新行为主义心理学家)
[Robotics 机器人]
·The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot eternally live in a cradle. - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
地球是人类的摇篮, 但人不能总是躺在摇篮里面. - 康斯坦丁·齐奥尔科夫斯基 (运载火箭之父)
[Rocketry 火箭]
·Beep...beep...beep...beep... - Sputnik I
哔...哔...哔...哔... - 伴星一号 (第一颗人造卫星)
[Satellites 人造卫星]
·"Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body." - Jean Racine
隐身幕后，尚未被察觉，我是这个强大机构的操纵者。 - 让·拉辛(法国剧作家)
[Stealth 隐形技术]
·"What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome." - Friedrich Nietzsche
什么是快乐？当你感觉力量在增强，阻碍被冲破。 - 弗雷德里希·尼采
[Superconductor 超导]
·The future will be better tomorrow. - Dan Quayle
未来将是更美好的明天. - 丹·奎尔 (美国副总统)
[Future Tech 未来科技]
想起以前一玩就一个通宵的时候，挺怀念。
今天看到这个转一下，个人觉得这些引言很大程度上加深了文明的厚重感跟精致感。
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==远古时代==
·Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God." -Cicero
"自然的一切都有神明的意志留下的烙印." - 西塞罗
[神秘论]
·"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back." - The Buddha
"静坐冥想带来智慧; 缺少冥想必定无知. 要明白是什么使人前行, 又是什么使人后退"
- 佛陀
[冥想学]
·"Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth." - Homer
"诸神在天界永生, 人类在地上行走, 两者全然不同." - 荷马
[多神论]
·Oh farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear. - Virgil
农夫们啊, 我为你们祈求夏季多雨, 冬季干燥. - 维吉尔
[Agriculture 农业]
·If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both. - Native American Saying
同时追逐两只野兔, 你将一无所获. - 美洲原住民谚语
[Hunting 捕猎]
·Put your shoulder to the wheel. - Aesop
用你的肩膀把车轮扛起来. - 伊索寓言《大力神与车夫》
[The Wheel 轮子 ]
·Blessed shall be the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. - The Bible, Deut. 28:4
汝家牲畜之生养, 牛犊之成长, 羊群之繁盛, 都必蒙赐福. - 圣经·申命记 28:4
[Animal Husbandry 家畜驯养]
·Do not throw the arrow which will return against you. - Kurdish Proverb
不要轻易放箭, 如果箭会射向你自身 - 库尔德谚语
[Archery 弓箭]
·The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. -Confucius
移大山始于运小石。 - 孔子
[Mining 采矿]
·It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. - Homer
带着青铜矛的剌伤战死沙场, 是一位年轻人最恰当的归宿. 牺牲让他的一切都充满荣. - 荷马
[Bronze Working 青铜器]
·Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Lao Tzu
授人以鱼, 不如授人以渔. - 老子
[Fishing 渔业]
·If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup." - Turkish proverb
讲真话的人应该一只脚踩在马镫里. - 土耳其谚语
[Horseback Riding 骑术]
·It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls. - Aristophanes
是敌人而不是朋友教育我们: 城市需要建造高墙 - 阿里斯托芬
[Masonry 石工术]
·I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. - The Bible, Exodus
我是耶和华, 你的神. 除了我以外, 你不可有别的神 - 圣经·出埃及记
[Monotheism 一神论]
·Hath not the potter power over the clay, to make one vessel unto honor,and another unto dishonor? - The Bible, Romans
匠人难道没有权柄, 从一团泥里拿一块作成贵重的器皿, 又拿一块作成卑贱的器皿么? - 圣经·罗马书
[Pottery 制陶]
·The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. - The Bible, Numbers
愿主赐福给你, 保护你. 愿主使他的脸光照你, 赐恩给你. 愿主向你仰脸, 赐你平安.- 圣经·民数记
[Priesthood 祭司制度]
·You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails. - Unknown
你不能控制风向, 但可以调整风帆. - 无名氏
[Sailing 航行术]
·True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read. - Pliny the Elder
真正的荣耀在于做值得写的; 写值得看的 - 老普林尼
[Writing 文字]
·You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. - Publius Syrus
趁热打铁才能成功. - 帕布利乌斯·塞鲁斯 (叙利亚作家)
[Iron Working 铁器]
==古典时代==
·"Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for." - George Sand
艺术至上只是一句空话。为了真善美的艺术才是我所追寻的信念。 - 乔治·桑
[Aesthetics 美学]
·Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. - The Buddha
词句有毁灭之力, 亦有拯救之能. 词句既真且善, 便可改变世界. - 佛陀
[Alphabet 字母表]
·For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. - Ecclesiastes
万物皆有定期, 凡事都有定时. - 圣经·传道书
[Calendar 历法]
·To bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, so that the strong should not harm the weak.
-Hammurabi's Code; Prologue
让正义的统治降临大地,使强者不能欺凌弱者. - 汉谟拉比法典, 序言
[Code of Laws 法典]
·The wisest men follow their own direction. - Euripides
有智慧的人自己选择方向 - 欧里庇得斯 (希腊诗人)
[Compass 罗盘]
·And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. -Percy Bysshe Shelley
在那石座上还有这样的铭记: '我是奥西曼德斯, 众王之王: 那些所谓强悍者呵, 谁能和我的业绩相比!' - 珀西·拜什·雪莱
[Construction 建筑构造学]
·Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. - Publius Syrus
物品的价值就是买者愿支付的价格. - 帕布利乌斯·塞鲁斯 (叙利亚作家)
[Currency 货币制度 ]
·All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays manyparts.- William Shakespeare
全世界是一个巨大的舞台, 所有红尘男女均只是演员罢了, 上场下场各有其时, 每个人一生都扮演着许多角色. - 威廉·莎士比亚
[Drama 戏剧]
·If music be the food of love, play on. - William Shakespeare
如果音乐是爱情的食粮, 那么请你继续演奏下去. - 威廉·莎士比亚
[Music 音乐]
·Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Sir Francis Bacon
书有可浅尝者, 有可吞食者, 少数则须咀嚼消化。 - 弗朗西斯·培根爵士
[Literature 文献]
·If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in
mathematics. - Roger Bacon
要使其他学科的内容准确无疑和真实无误, 就应当将数学作为所有知识的基础. - 罗杰·培根 (中世纪英国科学家)
[Mathematics 数学]
·And them that take the sword shall perish by the sword. - The Bible,Matthew
凡动用刀剑者, 必死于刀剑之下. - 圣经·马太福音
[Metal Casting 金属铸造]
·A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. - Herodotus
统治者过多全无益处. 一国应当只有一位统治者, 一位君王. - 希罗多德
[Monarchy 君主制]
==中古时代==
·The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy - Unknown
官僚机构的扩大是为了适应官僚机构扩大的需要 - 无名氏
[Civil Service 文官制度]
·I am the state. - Louis XIV
朕即国家. - 路易十四
[Divine Right 君权神授论]
·Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self;the heavenly by the love of God.
- St. Augustine
两种爱造就了两座城: 自爱所造的尘世之城; 神爱所造的天界之城. - 圣奥古斯丁
[Theology 神学]
·A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-
Exupry
设计师知道自己的作品何时达到完美: 不是当没有更多的部分可以增加时, 而是当没有更多的部分可以删减时.
- 安托瓦尼·德·圣艾修伯里 (法国飞行家)
[Engineering 工程学]
·I will to my lord be true and faithful, and love all which he loves and shun all which he shuns. - Anglo Saxon Oath of Fealty
我将真诚待奉我的领主, 爱他所爱的, 恶他所恶的. - 盎格鲁-撒克逊效忠誓词
[Feudalism 封建制度]
·People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public. -Adam Smith
同一行业的人聚会, 即便是为了嬉戏娱乐, 最终必定以针对公众的密谋而结束 - 亚当·斯密
[Guilds 行会]
·A god from the machine - Menander
机器之中有神灵 - 米南德尔 (希腊诗人)
[Machinery 机械]
·One doesn't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore. - Andre Gide
不想远离海岸线, 就别想发现新陆地.- 安德烈·纪德 (法国小说家)
[Optics 光学]
·I cannot live without books - Thomas Jefferson
没有书我就不能活 - 托马斯·杰弗逊
[Paper 造纸]
·I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle
我通过哲学了解了这一点: 我行事是出于自觉, 他人行事只是因为害怕法律 - 亚里士多德
[Philosophy 哲学]
==启蒙时代==
·There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance. - Ali ibn Abi-Talib
知识即财富, 无知即贫穷. - 阿里·伊本·阿比-塔里布 (阿拉伯诗人)
[Education 教育学]
·Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. - Albert Einstein
复息利率是宇宙中最强大的力量. - 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦
[Economics 经济学]
·Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. - Thomas Jefferson
银行系统比正规军队更难对付. - 托马斯·杰弗逊
[Banking 银行业]
·Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. - Plato
天文学吸引人们仰望上苍, 引导我们了解其他的世界. - 柏拉图
[Astronomy 天文学]
·You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
- Al Capone
说好话的同时拿把枪, 比光说好话能更能得到你想要的. - 艾尔·卡彭 (芝加哥黑帮首领)
[Gunpowder 火药]
·Chemistry means the difference between poverty and starvation and the abundant life. - Robert Brent
化学的产生意味着穷困饥馑与富足安康的分野. - 罗伯特·布伦特
[Chemistry 化学]
·Corporation, noun. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
公司, 名词. 一种精妙的机构, 能带来个人收益, 而无须个人负责. - 安布罗斯·比尔斯 (美国作家)
[Corporation 公司制]
·Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. - Benjamin Franklin
任何社会如果宁愿放弃一些自由以获得一些安全, 就既不会拥有自由, 也不会获得安全. -本杰明·富兰克林
[Liberalism 自由主义 ]
·No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, or in any other way destroyed,except by the lawful judgment of his peers. - The Magna Carta
任何自由人, 未经其他自由人之依法判决, 皆不得被逮捕, 监禁, 或加以任何其他损害. - 英国大宪章
[Constitution 宪法]
·It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. - Winston Churchill
如果不算其它所有曾经实行过的政体, 民主制度就是最糟糕的一种政体. - 温斯顿·丘吉尔
[Democracy 民主主义]
·"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." - John Adams
我们这代人必须学习政治和军事，我们的后代才有机会学习数学和哲学。 - 约翰·亚当斯(美国第二任总统)
[Military Science 军事科学]
·Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. - Sun-Tzu
是故胜兵先胜而后求战, 败兵先战而后求胜. - 孙子
[Military Tradition 军事制度]
·A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him. -Napoleon Bonaparte
一个人不会为了每天半个铜币和一点荣誉而付出自己的生命, 你必须鼓动他的灵魂才能激发他的斗志.
- 拿破仑·波拿巴
[Nationalism 民族主义]
·What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind. -Wendell Phillips
正如火药改变了战争的形式, 印刷机也改变了思想传播的方式. - 温德尔·菲利浦斯 (美国废奴运动领袖)
[Printing Press 印刷机]
·The whole is more than the sum of its parts. - Aristotle
整体大于部分之和. - 亚里士多德
[Replaceable Parts 可更换部件]
·Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. - Mao Zed0ng
枪杆子里出政权. - 毛丄泽东
[Rifling 膛线]
==工业时代==
·I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
我不认为神给予我们感觉, 理性和智慧, 是为了让我们弃之不用. - 伽利略奥·伽利略
[Scientific Method 科学方法]
·To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. - Isaac Newton
每个作用力必定对应一个同样大小的反作用力. - 艾萨克·牛顿
[Physics 物理学]
·Before that steam drill shall beat me down, I'll die with my hammer in my hand. - from "John Henry, the Steel-Driving Man"
若要气钻胜过我, 除非我死把锤扔. - 摘自 "约翰·亨利, 钢铁一般的人" (美国民谣)
[Steel 炼钢]
·Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl. -Frederick the Great
火炮提供一种尊严的手段, 可以用来代替粗俗的怒骂. - 腓特烈大帝
[Artillery 火炮]
·I fooled you, I fooled you, I got pig iron, I got pig iron, I got all pig iron. - Lonnie Donegan, "Rock Island Line"
我骗了你, 我骗了你, 我运的是铁, 我运的是铁, 我运的全都是生铁. - 罗尼·多内甘, "岩石岛铁路" (蓝调歌手)
[Railroad 铁路]
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense. - Napoleon, on Robert Fulton's Steamship
你说你造的船凭甲板下面放把火就能顶风逆水航行? 我没工夫听这种胡说八道. - 拿破仑, 评论罗伯特·富尔顿的汽船
[Steam Power 蒸汽机] (这句超有戏剧性的滑稽效果)
·People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black. - Henry Ford
顾客可以选择任何颜色的 T 型车 - 只要是黑色的. - 亨利·福特
[Assembly Line 生产流水线]
·Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. - E. B.White
要想找寻生活中的一切, 你须乘坐一辆小车前往. - 埃尔文·布鲁克斯·怀特 (美国作家)
[Combustion 内燃机]
·When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. - Dom Helder Camara
当我给穷人食物, 他们说我是圣徒, 当我问穷人为何没食物, 他们说我是共丄产党. -多姆·赫尔德·卡马拉 (巴西大主教)
[Communism 共产主义]
·We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles. -
Thomas Edison
我们要让电变得无比便宜, 以至于只有富人才会点蜡烛. - 托马斯·爱迪生
[Electricity 电学]
·Then one fine mornin' she puts on a New York station. You know her life was saved by Rock 'n' Roll. - The Velvet Underground, "Rock And Roll"
在某天清晨她打开一个纽约电台. 你知道拯救了她生命的就是摇滚 - 地下丝绒, "摇滚" (美国摇滚乐队)
[Radio 无线电]
·The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. - Adolf Hitler
人民大众... 更容易被大的谎言, 而不是小的谎言所欺骗. - 阿道夫·希特勒
[Fascism 法西斯主义]
·If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds. - J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting "The Bhagavad Gita"
如果一千颗太阳同时在天空发光, 就能彰显造物主的荣耀... 我成为了死神, 世界的毁灭者. - 罗伯特·奥本海默, 引自 "博伽梵歌"
[Fission 核裂变]
·There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. - Henry Ford
工业家必须遵守的规矩: 尽可能提高质量, 尽可能降低成本, 尽可能提高薪水. - 亨利·福特
[Industrialism 产业主义]
==信息时代==
·For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. - Leonardo Da Vinci
一旦尝试过飞翔的滋味, 你就会时刻仰视天空, 渴望再次回到那里. - 列奥纳多·达·芬奇
[Flight 航空]
·Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
告诉我你喜欢吃什么, 我就能了解你的为人 - 安特姆·布里亚特·萨瓦伦 (法国美食家)
[Refrigeration 致冷]
·As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - Hippocrates
对于病人, 有两件事要作为惯例 - 一是要救治之, 二是至少不要伤害之. - 希波克拉底 (医学之父)
[Medicine 医学]
·Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. - Bob Edwards
将来如果有父母生下携带严重遗传疾病的孩子, 就是犯罪行为. - 鲍勃·爱德华兹 (美国社会学家)
[Genetics 遗传学]
·We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American Song
我们的土地并非自祖先手中所继承的, 而是从子孙那里所借取的. - 美洲原住民谚语
[Ecology 生态学]
·The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. - Aristotle 整体大于部分之和. - 亚里士多德
[Composites 复合材料]
·I just want to say one word to you. Just one word: plastics. - Calder Willingham, The Graduate
我只想对你说一个词. 就一个词: 塑料. - 卡德尔·威灵汉姆, 电影 "毕业生"
[Plastics 塑料]
·Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. - Steve Wozniak
不要信赖那些大到不能扔出窗子的计算机. - 斯蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克 (苹果电脑创始人之一)
[Computers 电子计算机]
·"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth - [NEWLINE]Put out my hand and touched the Face of God." - John Gillespie Magee, Junior
哦！我已摆脱大地的束缚……伸手触摸上帝的面容。 - 小约翰·吉列斯皮·马吉(加拿大空军飞行员)
[Advanced Flight 先进航空]
·"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws." - Douglas Adams
没有什么跑得比光速更快，坏消息除外——它们服从特殊定律。 - 道格拉斯·亚当斯(美国科幻小说家)
[Laser 激光]
·There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. - Isaac Asimov
科学之光只有一束, 在任何一处闪耀就可照亮一切. - 艾萨克·阿西莫夫
[Fiber Optics 光纤]
·Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
任何一种足够新颖的技术看起来都象是魔法. - 亚瑟·克拉克 (英国科幻作家)
[Fusion 核聚变]
·The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde
比遭人议论更糟糕的唯一一件事就是无人议论. - 奥斯卡·王尔德
[Mass Media 大众传媒]
·The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do. - B.F. Skinner
真正的问题不是机器能否思考, 而是人能否思考. - 史金那 (美国新行为主义心理学家)
[Robotics 机器人]
·The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot eternally live in a cradle. - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
地球是人类的摇篮, 但人不能总是躺在摇篮里面. - 康斯坦丁·齐奥尔科夫斯基 (运载火箭之父)
[Rocketry 火箭]
·Beep...beep...beep...beep... - Sputnik I
哔...哔...哔...哔... - 伴星一号 (第一颗人造卫星)
[Satellites 人造卫星]
·"Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body." - Jean Racine
隐身幕后，尚未被察觉，我是这个强大机构的操纵者。 - 让·拉辛(法国剧作家)
[Stealth 隐形技术]
·"What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome." - Friedrich Nietzsche
什么是快乐？当你感觉力量在增强，阻碍被冲破。 - 弗雷德里希·尼采
[Superconductor 超导]
·The future will be better tomorrow. - Dan Quayle
未来将是更美好的明天. - 丹·奎尔 (美国副总统)
[Future Tech 未来科技]