As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

  • -- Eric Liu 刘耀威

按照目前的情况,我们这些出生就有幸成为公民的人不必做太多事情。对我们的要求很少。

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The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

斯德哥尔摩成千上万市民的经济行为中微妙而复杂的竞争与合作模式对经济学家提出了一个挑战,这个挑战可能与物理学家和化学家的挑战一样复杂。

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

我们有责任向新奥尔良的洪水灾民如实回答为什么会发生这样的事件,并向我们的公民保证这样的悲剧不会再次发生。

It was just a funny notion about everything. We were lucky that Jane had such a passion for it and she, from the beginning, wanted the two of us; Dolly and me.

这只是一个有趣的想法。我们很幸运,简对它有这么大的热情,她从一开始就想要我们俩;我和多莉。

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

我不是故意变老,只是碰巧变老了。如果你幸运的话,这种事可能会发生在你身上。