Mends

Yeah, just like I certainly did not expect to buy these gifts at such low prices.

是啊，我怎么也没想到买这些礼物才花了这么点钱。

Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.

宁作自由民之首，不为贵族之尾。

Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?

某位哲学家曾拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察天空；到了19世纪40年代，有人硬把罗斯勋爵高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星云说成是磨镜工留下的磨痕。难道反对伽利略的哲学家比诋毁罗斯勋爵造谣者应受到更大的谴责吗？