In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

  • -- Adam Ferguson 亚当·弗格森

在每一个商业国家,尽管自命享有平等权利,但少数人的提高必然会使多数人感到沮丧。

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The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

个人财富的积累和商业交易的扩大使某些种类的犯罪大大增加,令人感到遗憾,而运输方面的改善在很大程度上便利了在逃罪犯的逃跑。

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

如果教育是国家的义务,那么国家也有义务承担教育的负担,即教育的税收。

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.

法官在此案中决定,国家和辩方都有机会对某些媒体做出回应。这就是这样一个例子。

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

对于一个优越的种族,作为人类对超凡圣洁和美德的自命不凡,似乎……荒谬。

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

我并不反对出演大型商业电影。