Barnwell is a place near Cambridge. It is one of the descents into the infernal regions; nay, the infernal regions have there ascended to the upper earth, and are rampant. He that goeth by it shall be scorched, but he that seeketh it knowingly shall be devoured in the twinkling of an eye, and become withered as the grass at noonday.英文原著 · 《Cambridge Pieces》
page 230.). Nevertheless the variety continues to be reproduced from seed, because in addition to the double and infertile flowers, the seeds always produce a certain number of single, fertile blossoms, and these are used to reproduce the double variety. These single and fertile plants correspond "to the males and females of an ant-colony, the infertile plants, which are regularly produced in large numbers, to the neuter workers of the colony."英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
In order adequately to discuss the question of mimicry and sex it would be necessary to analyse the whole of the facts, so far as they are known in butterflies. On the present occasion it is only possible to state the inferences which have been drawn from general impressions,--inferences which it is believed will be sustained by future inquiry.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Section 1. The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the Supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》
>From these three chief considerations--the great inferiority of physical strength, a very much less and undefined degree of inferiority in intellect, and the salutary teachings of the Christian faith--it follows that, to a limited degree, varying with circumstances, and always to be marked out by sound reason and good feeling, the subordination of woman, as a sex, is inevitable.英文原著 · 《Female Suffrage》
"The crown, by its agents, accumulated construction upon construction, and inference upon inference, as the giants heaped Pelion upon Ossa; but Otis, like Jupiter, dashed this whole building to pieces, and scattered the pulverized atoms to the four winds; and no judge, lawyer, or crown officer dared to say, why do ye so?英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
Wait, did she just say that we could never make people feel inferior because we're so inferior ourselves?美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Imagine what people would say if they learned that the new bridges and rails they ride on were built of inferior stuff.美剧 · 《Billions》
Better to play fast and aggressive with inferior matériel, than let them be exposed later.美剧 · 《Billions》
And as you might infer, this brought me great lightness.美剧 · 《Billions》