To sum up: the idea of organic evolution, older than Aristotle, slowly developed from the stage of suggestion to the stage of verification, and the first convincing verification was Darwin's; from being an a priori anticipation it has become an interpretation of nature, and Darwin is still the chief interpreter; from being a modal interpretation it has advanced to the rank of a causal theory, the most convincing part of which men will never cease to call Darwinism.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Two years later the hypothesis was proved to hold for caterpillars of many kinds by J. Jenner Weir and A.G. Butler, whose observations have since been abundantly confirmed by many naturalists. Darwin wrote to Weir, May 13, 1869: "Your verification of Wallace's suggestion seems to me to amount to quite a discovery." ("More Letters", II. page 71 (footnote).)英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Wyant's affiliations in Siena being restricted to an acquaintance with his land-lady, he was forced to apply to her for the verification of Count Ottaviano's story.英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 1》
I figured it out that way. But say, Jeff, it's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it. I love that Mame Dugan. I've gone six days without food in order to coincide with her sentiments. Only one bite did I have. That was when I knocked the tattooed man down with a war club and got a sandwich he was gobbling.英文原著 · 《Heart of the West》
With an abrupt upspring, his throat half harsh with anger, he placed both fore-paws on the table and barked at the waiter. Captain Jorgensen crashed his fist down. "You win!" he roared. "I pay for the beer! Waiter, bring one more."
Michael looked to Steward for verification, and Steward's hand on his head gave adequate reply. "We try again," said the captain, very much awake and interested, with the back of his hand wiping the beer-foam from his moustache. "Maybe he knows one an' two. How about three?英文原著 · 《Michael, Brother of Jerry》
Lyell lays himself open to a slap by saying that he would come to show his original observations, and then not distinctly doing so; he had better only have laid claim, on this one point of man, to verification and compilation.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
I need the two-step verification code for the Herald's internal servers.美剧 · 《House of Cards》