The capacity of individual power stations, many of them hydro plants, rose from a few kilowatts to over a megawatt in less than a decade.

在不到十年的时间里，单个发电站的发电能力就从几千瓦上升到了几兆瓦，其中许多是水力发电站。

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It is better to read a few books carefully than to read many at random.

随便读许多书不如细细地读几本书。

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"Once you get noticed by a company, it gets a lot easier, but it's so hard to get noticed because there's so many people looking for so few jobs."

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He only insists that sovereign power remain absolute and undivided whether it belongs to a single person, a few, or the many.

他所强调的是,无论国家权力是掌控在个人手里,还是少数人或是集体手里，它都应当是绝对而不可分割的。

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They can reproduce and so you only need to give a few of them in order to make many, many inside the body.

它们能自我复制,所以只需少量病毒,就能在体内产生大量的病毒

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Maybe the free market will correct for the wages too since the big-box stores eventually also have to sell the items to the very people they employ, but the bigger risk is the transfer of control from many to a select few, which leads to its own risks in terms of productivity and wealth creation.

FORBES: Wiping Out Millions of Jobs is the Whole Darn Point

Many thanks to a few commenters for pointing out the Bathysphere genetic code item, which led to me attempting to unravel the rest of the parallels.

FORBES: Connect

That an unskilled dreamer could teach professionals how to bring off a masterpiece is a fantasy that many share but few presume to achieve.

ECONOMIST: Gilbert Kaplan