He noticed at once that discipline was slack: the Danes had the self-confidence of conquerors, and their security precautions were casual.

他马上发现丹麦军纪律松弛，他们以征服者自居，安全措施马马虎虎。

Two factors weigh heavily against the effectiveness of scientific research in industry.

两个因素严重地影响工业里科学研究的效果：

If we glimpse the unutterable, it is unwise to try to utter it, nor should we seek to invest with significance that which we cannot grasp.

如果我瞥见了只可意会不可言传的事物，企图把它说出来，那上不明智的；对于我们不理解的事物，我们也不应该去赋予它某种意义。

it is very rarely that one comes across a dead body, except, of course, on the roads.

但是，除非在路上，很少有人遇到这些动物的尸体，

it is taught to every member of the tribe so that in this respect everybody is equally equipped for life.

并传授给部落中的每一个成员。人人受到的有关生活本领的教育是相等的。

it is customary for the new arrival to be placed between the stalls of two captives whose training is already well advanced.

通常是把新到的安置在两头训练得很好的大象的象厩中间，