文明IV: Quotes 科技引言
| 科技名称 | 原文 | 译文 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sailing 航行术 | 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 |
| 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》 |
| 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 |
| Aesthetics 美学 | "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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Divine Right 君权神授论 | I am the state. - Louis XIV | 朕即国家. - 路易十四 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Machinery 机械 | A god from the machine - Menander | 机器之中有神灵 - 米南德尔 (希腊诗人) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| Paper 造纸 | I cannot live without books - Thomas Jefferson | 没有书我就不能活 - 托马斯·杰弗逊 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| Military Science 军事科学 | "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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| Advanced Flight 先进航空 | "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） |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 (英国科幻作家) |
| 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) |
| Laser 激光 | "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） |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Stealth 隐形 | "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） |
| Superconductor 超导 | "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 |
| Future Tech 未来科技 | 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) |
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