穿梭 | chuān suō | to travel back and forth; to shuttle | |
梭镖 | suō biāo | spear | |
日月如梭 | rì yuè rú suō | the sun and moon like a shuttle (idiom); How time flies! | |
太空梭 | tài kōng suō | space shuttle | |
卢梭 | lú suō | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Enlightenment philosopher |
1 | Go to the library. Check out Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Read it until you are done. Take away some important lessons. | |
2 | In a country where so many gamely adopt the latest new gadget, we need our Thoreaus, not to stop the profusion of technology, but simply to remind us to use them well. | |
3 | The flare was presumably caused by sunlight glinting from some flat surface on the shuttle-shaped spacecraft, but no one can say for sure because it is a classified mission. | |
4 | This time away offered me some perspectives on how - to paraphrase Henry David Thoreau - I had become a tool of my tools. | |
5 | Many environmentalists - especially those in the American tradition inspired by Henry David Thoreau - believe that "in wilderness is the preservation of the world". |