The function of a public library was once described as "less a reservoir than a fountain".

公共图书馆的功能曾被描述为“与其说是水库，不如说是喷泉”。

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Noble Laureate and physiologist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi once described discovery as "seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought".

诺贝尔奖得主、生理学家阿尔伯特·森特-乔吉曾将发现描述为“看到所有人看到的，思考没有人想到的”。

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Former U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Danzig once described it as instruments of "nonexplosive warfare."

美国前海军大臣理查德·丹兹格（Richard Danzig）曾将其描述为“非爆炸性战争”的工具。

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A critic once described Miller as an activist for the common man.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

A critic once described American writer Edith Wharton as a "self-made man."

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The financial writer Jim Grant once described liquidity as the expectation that everything will go right.

NPR: Bailing out Bear Stearns

Mr Cameron once described UKIP as a party of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists".

BBC: David Cameron pledges 'to work hard to win back' voters

Shockley was once described as having reverse - oh, missed on a word, but...

NPR: Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy