来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：新生有机化学 第1集 第1集》

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  Look at it.
  看这个
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  War.
  战争
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  To make gun powder.
  为了制作火药
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  There was a chapter about gun powder
  英国皇家学会历史著作中
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  in The History of the Royal Society.
  有一章关于火药的论述
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  Okay, and up here at the top is the motto,
  顶端这是一句座右铭
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  which is Nullius in Verba,
  Nullius in Verba 勿信传言
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  which comes from this quote from Horace,
  这是引述自贺拉斯的话
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  and what it says is, "Lest you ask who leads me,
  这句话的意思是 无论是谁引领了我
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  in what household I lodge"
  我身处何等境地
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  (that is, what philosophy I advocate) "
  (即我主张的哲学是什么)
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  there is no master in whose words I am bound to take an oath.
  没有任何人任何话 能迫使我立下誓言