The old man was a prolific writer.

这位老人是一位作家。

Prolific writer, crazy inventor. Why do you ask?

作家加上狂热发明家。你问他干嘛？

With more education you're more likely be a positive and productive member of society.

有了更教育，你就更有可能成为一个积极社会成员。

It did motivate him to work more and faster and create more things. And in fact, his creative output over the last five and six years is probably his greatest his most prolific period.

这使他工作更加发奋，提高品创新速度。事实上他最后五、六年是他最、最巅峰时期。

Healthy but overgrown or unproductive deciduous shrubs can be brought back to life by pruning.

健康但草丛生或不落叶灌木可以通过修剪而恢复生机。

In addition to producing presidents, Ohio has a history of creating aviators.

除了总统，俄亥俄还有飞行员历史。

Never was there a prettier or more fruitful valley.

那里再没有一个更漂亮和山谷了。

A prolific social media user, Zheng posts nearly every day on her WeChat Moments.

作为一名社交媒用户，郑几乎每天都在她微信朋友圈上发帖。

In his wedding toast, George W., a prolific painter in his postpresidency, saluted his new son-in-law: As the lonely artist in our family, I'm thrilled to have another sensitive soul with whom I can relate.

乔治·W·布什卸任总统后，成为一位画家。在婚礼祝酒辞中，他向他新女婿致敬：“作为我们家族中孤独艺术家，我很高兴能有另一个敏感灵魂，我可以和他交流。

They're known as the " ancient middlemen" for their important role in cultural transparency, through their prolific trade; and they were highly regarded for their skill in shipbuilding, glass making, dye production, and manufacturing of luxury and common goods.

他们被称为“古代中间人”，因为他们在文化透明度中重要作用，通过他们贸易；他们在造船、玻璃制造、染料生以及奢侈品和普通商品制造方面技能受到高度好评。

It was really his last four years where he developed the style we would come to know him by, and these were also his most prolific years.

实际上，在他最后四年里，他画作形成了我们逐渐了解他风格，这也是他最几年。

In the course of a long and productive career, he was a sea captain, a cartographer, a professor of geometry at the University of Oxford, deputy controller of the Royal Mint, astronomer royal, and inventor of the deep-sea diving bell.

在漫长而又生涯中，他当过船长、地图绘制员、牛津大学几何学教授、皇家制币厂副厂长、皇家天文学家，是深海潜水钟发明人。

A prolific artist throughout the 1960s and 70s, pop art superstar Andy Warhol began creating a series of digital works on a personal computer, the Amiga 1000 model, in the mid-1980s.

作为60年代和70年代艺术家，波普艺术巨星安迪沃霍尔于80年代中期开始在个人电脑 Amiga 1000 模型上创作一系列数字作品。

It is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of filmmaking, and yet, for someone with a career as long and prolific as Herzog, it is but one of many exceptional tales.

这是电影制作历史上奇迹，但对赫尔佐格他漫长职业生涯来说，这仅为冰山一角。

They connect you directly to one of the most prolific force multipliers of all time, Benjamin Franklin, a French admirer called Franklin, the Archimedes of his country.

他们把你直接联系到有史以来最力量倍增者之一，本杰明·富兰克林，一个被称为富兰克林法国崇拜者，他国家阿基米德。

A prolific cyber crime gang thought to be based in Russia has issued an ultimatum to victims of a mass hack that's affected many large organizations around the world, including the BBC.

据信总部设在俄罗斯一个网络犯罪团伙向大规模黑客攻击受害者发出了最后通牒，这起攻击影响了世界各地许大型组织，包括英国广播公司。

As the climate shifted, more productive environments with more food began to take shape closer to the poles, so whales started to spend a lot more time there and became more migratory.

随着气候变化，更食开始在靠近极地地方形成更环境，所以鲸鱼开始在那里花费更时间，并开始更得迁移模式。

Hatshepsut was also a prolific builder. The age of the pyramids might have been over, but she wanted to show that Egypt was still capable of grand constructions.

哈特谢普苏特也是一位建设者。金字塔时代可能已经结束了，但她想表明埃及仍然有能力建造宏伟建筑。

It's difficult for even the most naturally productive writer to work in an environment where alarms and excursions are the rule rather than the exception.

哪怕是天生最作家在一处警报频传、老得分心环境里也很难坚持工作，当然精力偶尔分散尚可容忍。

Now, if you live in a society that has a good amount of wealth—um, good agriculture, good industry—other societies are probably going to try to take it.

那么，如果你生活在一个拥有巨大财富社会里，农业，精良工业——其他社会也许正觊觎着它。