Knowledge is only an increase of power, and power may be a bad, as well as a good thing.

知识意味着力量的增加，而力量既可能是好事，也可能是坏事。

And finally, soft power describes strategies used by a country to increase its power through economic and cultural influences, instead of fighting wars.

最后，软实力描述的是一个国家通过经济和文化影响力而不是通过战争来增强其实力的战略。

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton, and himself. Watt could have given in pounds the increase of power between Newcomen's engines and his own.

拉普拉斯会发现确定笛卡尔、莱布尼茨、牛顿和他自己在数学科学中的进步比例是儿戏。瓦特本可以以磅为单位给出 Newcomen 的发动机和他自己的发动机之间的功率增加。