查询词典 Lucretius

Lucretius, a classical Roman author, created the proverb One man's meat is another man's poison, meaning that what is good for one person can be harmful to another.

卢克莱修，一位古罗马作家，创造了可知言"甲之鱼肉，乙之前痈"（一个人的肉是另一个人毒药），意思是对甲有利的事对乙可能有害。

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another -- Lucretius

当海水高涨，狂风卷浪时，隔岸观火是多么惬意的一件事。——卢克莱修

In the first century B.C.E., the Roman epicurean Lucretius outlined an atomistic philosophy in his peom On the Nature of Things , which attritubuted the world's vairety to what he saw as atoms' inherent and unpridictable liveness.

在公元前一世纪，罗马伊壁鸠鲁学派学者卢克莱修在他的《物性论》一诗中概述了一种原子论哲学，他将世界的变化归结为他所观察到的原子内在的、不可预测的活性。

Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics--all those profundities which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to cause stars to blaze forth there.

他自己便隐藏在那里，生活在那里，绝对心满意足，不理睬那些诱人而又骇人的重大问题，如抽象理论的无可揣摹的远景以及形而上学的探渊，所有那些针对同一问题的玄妙理论他都抛在一边，留给上帝的信徒和否定上帝的虚无论者去处理，这些玄论有命运、善恶、生物和生物间的斗争、动物的半睡眠半思想状态、死后的转化、坟墓中的生命总结、宿世的恩情对今生的"我"的那种不可理解的纠缠、元精、实质、色空、灵魂、本性、自由、必然，还有代表人类智慧的巨神们所探索的那些穷高极深的问题，还有卢克莱修①、摩奴②、圣保罗和但丁曾以炬火似的目光，凝神仰望那仿佛能使群星跃出的浩阔天空。

American poet and educator who wrote the sonnet sequence Two Lives(1925) and translated Beowulf and the works of Lucretius.

伦纳德，威廉·埃勒瑞1876－1944美国诗人和教育家。他作品有十四行组诗两次生命（1925年），他还翻译了贝尔武甫和卢克莱蒂尔斯的作品

The poet, that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, said yet excellently well: 'it is a pleasure, to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth:' (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene;) 'and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below;' so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling, or pride.

"有一派感性主义哲学〈指伊璧鸠鲁派哲学家克莱修（ Lucretius ，罗马人，约前99—约前55）。名著有《特质论》。认为感觉是一切的尺度〉在许多方面是肤浅的，但其中一位诗人却由於向往真理而流芳於世。他曾说过："居高临下遥看颠簸于大海中的航船是愉快的，站在堡垒中遥看激战中的战场也是愉快的，但是没有能比攀登于真理的高峰之上（一座高出一切的山陵，在那里的空气永远是澄清而宁静的），俯视尘世中的种种谬误与迷障、迷雾和风暴之变更愉快了！

Shortly after, the Pannonian war, which had been begun by Agrippa in the consulate of your grandfather, Marcus Vinicius, was conducted by Nero, a war which was important and formidable enough, and on account of its proximity a menace to Italy.

稍后，由阿格里帕在您的祖父马尔库斯·维尼奇乌斯任执政官那年(BC19，该年的命年执政官为Gaius Sentius Saturninus和 M.Vinicius，也有资料显示是Q。 Lucretius Vespillo )发起的潘诺尼亚战争由尼禄来指挥。

Shortly after, the Pannonian war, which had been begun by Agrippa in the consulate of your grandfather, Marcus Vinicius, was conducted by Nero, a war which was important and formidable enough, and on account of its proximity a menace to Italy.

稍后，由阿格里帕在您的祖父马尔库斯·维尼奇乌斯任执政官那年(BC19，该年的命年执政官为 Gaius Sentius Saturninus 和 M.Vinicius，也有资料显示是 Q。 Lucretius Vespillo；案：据富勒将军的《西洋世界军事史》，该年为 BC13年)发起的潘诺尼亚战争由尼禄来指挥。

Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics--all those profundities which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to cause stars to blaze forth there.

他自己便隐藏在那里，生活在那里，绝对心满意足，不理睬那些诱人而又骇人的重大问题，如抽象理论的无可揣摹的远景以及形而上学的探渊，所有那些针对同一问题的玄妙理论他都抛在一边，留给上帝的信徒和否定上帝的虚无论者去处理，这些玄论有命运、善恶、生物和生物间的斗争、动物的半睡眠半思想状态、死后的转化、坟墓中的生命总结、宿世的恩情对今生的&我&的那种不可理解的纠缠、元精、实质、色空、灵魂、本性、自由、必然，还有代表人类智慧的巨神们所探索的那些穷高极深的问题，还有卢克莱修①、摩奴②、圣保罗和但丁曾以炬火似的目光，凝神仰望那仿佛能使群星跃出的浩阔天空。

In rendering Epicurus's atomic theory from the abstract Greek prose into Latin hexameters, Lucretius made Epicurus's ideas about the role of pleasure in the realm of ethics especially poignant; these ideas would later influence the utilitarians , especially Bentham and Mill.

把伊壁鸠鲁原子论从抽象的希腊语翻译成拉丁文六步格，卢克莱修让伊壁鸠鲁的&快乐&变成动人的道德，这个作品影响后世的许多实用主义者，至边沁和弥尔而达到大成。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。