A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

一个没有渣滓和不满的国家是有序的、和平的、愉快的,但也许没有未来的种子。

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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

作为个人和国家,我们现在正遭受着社会自恋的折磨。我们祖先深爱的回声,原始美洲,已经被遗弃了。我们爱上了自己的形象,爱上了自己创造的形象,而这些形象原来就是我们自己的形象。

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.

似乎我们的国家已经变成了一个只有摇滚歌手和棒球运动员为英雄的国家,没有一个正直的大个子可以被召唤来完成这项任务。

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

喀布尔在六七十年代很受嬉皮士的欢迎。那里非常安静祥和。

We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.

我们将以最大的诚意尽一切努力实现国家的和平统一。