For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

  • -- Elliot Lee Richardson 李理查森

对你们来说,国家是一个有自己目的的实体,人民可以被要求为之服务。对我们来说,这个词只是一个标签,用来表示我们人民把共同关心的事情的责任委托给我们中间的一些人所作的安排。

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My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.

我担心的是,我能否做好法官的工作,让全国人民相信我的任命是正确的。

Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

有时候每个人都做了正确的事情,但仍然有一堆烂摊子需要清理。总得有人为此负责。

There are two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

世界上有两种人:给予者和接受者。接受者可能吃得更好,但给予者睡得更好。

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

只要一个人生活在黑暗中,那么告诉别人似乎就是一种责任。

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

我对目前重组我国情报机构的努力确实感到担忧。

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

你必须提醒人们自己的奋斗。这是一个责任。