My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

我的理论一直是,如果我们要梦想,对希望的奉承和绝望的忧郁一样廉价,一样愉快。

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We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.

我们希望,我们已经明确表示,部队需要出动。它需要是完全和彻底的撤退。我们的立场是,必须尽快完成这项工作,使选举能够自由、公正和不受外来影响。

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

我将进一步努力进行这项调查,我相信这项调查不仅是推测性的,而且有足够的时间来激发令人高兴的希望,使其从根本上造福于人类。

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

我喜欢的生活。我有时疯狂、绝望、痛苦、悲伤,但经历了这一切,我仍然十分肯定地知道,活着是一件伟大的事情。

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

上帝把我们从做道德上正确的事情的人手中拯救出来。总是我们其余的人被撞成两半。

I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it.

我一直对做这件事很感兴趣,但是我对我的生活很满意,所以我没有去追求它。

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

我们从被迫生活的绝望中汲取力量。我们将忍受。