1·The voice [on the phone] said, 'Are you Saul Griffith?'
他说去年9月份获得的奖励简直是不可能的任务。 "[电话里的]有人说， ‘你是索尔·格里菲斯吗？’
2·"The next question was equally shocking," Griffith says. " 'In difficult times, I pray or meditate.'
“下一个问题同样令人厌恶，”格里菲斯说，“‘在困难的时候，我是祈祷还是冥想呢’我从来不干这种事，我看不出来那些题跟我适不适合当军人有任何关系。”
3·Howard Wiseman of Griffith University proposed that it might be possible to measure the direction a photon (particle of light) was moving, conditioned upon where the photon is found.
格里菲斯大学的霍华德·怀斯曼提出测量一个正在移动的光子(光粒子)的方向是可能的，条件是光子是在哪里被发现的。
4·The origins of stigma lie not in ignorance or psychopathology but in Darwinian biology, said Griffith.
格里菲斯说，耻辱感的根源不是无知，也不是精神疾病，而是进化论。
5·Griffith sat crying as police arrived and sorted through the wreckage-and wrote her a ticket for inattentive driving.
警察赶来并收集残骸时，格里菲斯坐在那哭。警察向她开出疏忽驾驶的罚单。
1·Griffith's expertise is in writing legal briefs.
格里菲思的专长在于撰写法律案情摘要。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·"But," says Griffith, "they are important, because evolution works incredibly slowly, on the basis of very small incremental changes from generation to generation".
“但是”，格里菲思说，“它们非常重要，因为演变进行的极为缓慢，在非常小的增加改变的基础上一代又一代”。
3·The Birth of a Nation (1915, D.W. Griffith) - U.S. Civil war.
《一个国家的诞生》(1915，导演d.w.格里菲思)——美国内战。