On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

  • -- David Cameron 大卫卡梅伦

一方面,我们必须问,是否有一些领域的全民福利已经无法承受?但另一方面,让我们看看依赖的问题,我们通过人们所享有的福利使他们陷入贫困。

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People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. [We] need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.

人们主要关注的是保护互联网上的计算机,但令人惊讶的是,很少有人关注保护互联网本身作为一种通信媒介。(我们)需要对此给予更多关注,因为它实际上有点脆弱。

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

穷人是隐形的,这是他们最重要的一点。它们不像旧的改革辞令那样简单地被忽视和遗忘;更糟的是,他们没有被看到。

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

为了人类的福利和进步,预防坏的行为比做好事取得的成就要大得多。

Better poor with honour than rich with shame.

穷而光荣,胜于富而耻辱。