Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country’s excellent elementary schools: a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the American genius for nonverbal, “spatial” thinking about things technological.在诸多形成...
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Many political observers point to Pat Buchanan's infamous 1992 speech at the GOP national convention as the beginning of the so-called culture war in America. However, the roots of this fascist and authoritarian campaign are much older: Jim and Jane Crow and white-on-black chattel slavery, ge...
17. The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. 公众惊人地宽容。他们可以原谅一切,除了天才。 18. Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. 雄心壮志是失败最后的避难所。 19. Life is never fair…And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not....
But what was needed was the strategical genius of Don Corleone. The whole thing degenerated into such a deadly guerrilla war that both sides found themselves losing a great deal of revenue and lives to no purpose. The Corleone Family was finally forced to close down some of its most ...
For that is the true genius of America — that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow. 美国能够变革,这才是美国真正的精髓。我们的联邦会不断完善。我们已经取得的成就,将为我们将来能够并且必须取...
年轻的尼古拉·特斯拉前文 ☛戈斯皮克事件尼古拉·特斯拉的故事摘自玛格丽特·斯通(Margaret Storm)著作RETURN OF THE DOVE:The Story of Freedom's Star(1996)威廉译(这只是一个粗译的版本,小标题为译者所加)5 神秘瞬间1873 年,特斯拉(Nikola Tesla,1856-1943)到格拉茨(Gratz)学习电气工程。他知道命运的力量正在...
1. Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative 谈论天气是无趣人类最后的避难所。 2. I have nothing to declare except my genius. 除了我的天才,我没什么好申报的。 3. I am not at all romantic. I am not old enough. I leave romance to my seniors. ...
A garden classic, The Genius of the Place reveals that the history of landscape gardening is much more than a history of design and style; it opens up a wide perspective of English cultural history, showing how landscape gardening was gradually transformed over two centuries into an art that ...
group with whom he had what many call his finest hour, and certainly his greatest commercial triumph, was the Tornados. Their superbly evocative,space-age instrumental“Telstar” not only topped the UK charts in 1962 but became the first record by a British group to go to No.1 in America....