All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things.

在我看来，所有这些使他们与生命和万物之源联系在了一起。

Yet a great many processes depending on such research are sought for with complete secrecy until the stage at which patents can be taken out.

然而，依赖这种研究的很多工艺程序是在完全保密的情况下进行的，直到可以取得专利权的阶段为止。

Eventually the turtle has been butted all the way down to the floor of the tank.

这只海龟最终被撞到池底。

In that first glorious hour, the mighty Vasa , which was intended to rule the Baltic,

就这样，想要统治波罗的海的大型战舰"瓦萨号，在它壮丽的起航时刻，

on applied psychology, and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow-citizens.

实用心理学和与同伴相处的能力。

There are even stories of half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer.

训练了一半的小象，由于不可避免的情况与他们的主人分离后，竟拒绝吃食，消瘦至死。