| 科技名称
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| Agriculture 农业
| 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
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| Animal Husbandry 家畜驯养
| 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
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| Archery 弓箭
| 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
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| Bronze Working 青铜器
| 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光. - 荷马
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| Fishing 渔业
| 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
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| Horseback Riding 骑术
| 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
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| Hunting 捕猎
| 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
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| Masonry 石工术
| 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
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| Meditation 冥想学
| 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
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| Mining 采矿
| The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Confucius
| 莫入宝山空手回. - 中国古语 (原文谓孔子语 "移大山始于运小石", 应为西方人讹传且与采矿科技并不相配)
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| Monotheism 一神论
| 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
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| Mysticism 神秘论
| 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
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| Polytheism 多神论
| 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
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| Pottery 制陶
| 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
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| Priesthood 祭司制度
| 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
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| Sailing 航海
| 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
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| The Wheel 轮子
| 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》
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| Writing 文字
| 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
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| Alphabet 字母表
| 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
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| Calendar 历法
| 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
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| Code of Laws 法典
| 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
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| Compass 罗盘
| 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)
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| Construction 建筑构造学
| 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
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| Currency 货币制度
| 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)
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| Drama 戏剧
| 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 many parts.- 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
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| Iron Working 铁器
| 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)
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| Literature 书面文献
| 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
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| Mathematics 数学
| 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)
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| Metal Casting 金属铸造
| 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
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| Monarchy 君主制
| 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
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| Banking 银行业
| 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
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| Civil Service 文官制度
| 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
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| Divine Right 君权神授论
| I am the state. - Louis XIV
| 朕即国家. - 路易十四
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| Engineering 工程学
| 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)
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| Feudalism 封建制度
| 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
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| Guilds 行会
| 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
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| Machinery 机械
| A god from the machine - Menander
| 机器之中有神灵 - 米南德尔 (希腊诗人)
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| Music 音乐
| 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
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| Optics 光学
| 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)
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| Paper 造纸
| I cannot live without books - Thomas Jefferson
| 没有书我就不能活 - 托马斯·杰弗逊
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| Philosophy 哲学
| 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
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| Theology 神学
| 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
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| Astronomy 天文学
| 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
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| Chemistry 化学
| 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
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| Constitution 宪法
| 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
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| Corporation 公司制
| Corporation, n. 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)
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| Democracy 民主主义
| 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
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| Economics 经济学
| 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
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| Education 教育学
| 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)
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| Gunpowder 火药
| 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)
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| Liberalism 自由主义
| 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
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| Military Tradition 军事制度
| 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
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| Nationalism 民族主义
| 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
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| Printing Press 印刷机
| 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)
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| Replaceable Parts 可更换部件
| The whole is more than the sum of its parts. - Aristotle
| 整体大于部分之和. - 亚里士多德
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| Rifling 膛线
| Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. - Mao Zedong
| 枪杆子里出政权. - 毛泽东
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| Artillery 火炮
| 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
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| Assembly Line 生产流水线
| 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
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| Biology 生物学
| It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
| 物竞天择, 适者生存. - 查尔斯·达尔文
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| Combustion 内燃机
| 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)
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| Communism 共产主义
| 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, 他们说我是共产党. - 多姆·赫尔德·卡马拉 (巴西大主教)
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| Electricity 电学
| 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
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| Fascism 法西斯主义
| 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
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| Fission 核裂变
| 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"
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| Industrialism 产业主义
| 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
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| Medicine 医学
| 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)
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| Physics 物理学
| 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
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| Railroad 铁路
| 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)
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| Scientific Method 科学方法
| 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
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| Steam Power 蒸汽机
| 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
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| Steel 炼钢
| 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)
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| Composites 复合材料
| The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. - Aristotle
| 整体大于部分之和. - 亚里士多德
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| Computers 电子计算机
| 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)
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| Ecology 生态学
| 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
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| Fiber Optics 光纤
| 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
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| Flight 航空
| 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
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| Fusion 核聚变
| 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 (美国科幻作家)
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| Genetics 遗传学
| 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)
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| Mass Media 大众传媒
| 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
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| Plastics 塑料
| 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"
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| Radio 无线电
| 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)
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| Refrigeration 致冷
| 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)
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| Robotics 机器人
| 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)
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| Rocketry 火箭
| 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)
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| Satellites 人造卫星
| Beep...beep...beep...beep... - Sputnik I
| 哔...哔...哔...哔... - 伴星一号 (第一颗人造卫星)
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| Future Tech 未来科技
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