We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

  • -- Cornel West 康奈尔·韦斯特

我们有一个以市场为导向的社会,如此痴迷于买卖,痴迷于权力、快乐和财产。

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When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.

当一个系统处于两种不同的状态时,两种状态之间的体积或任何其他性质的差异只取决于这些状态本身,而不取决于系统从一种状态传递到另一种状态的方式。

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

说社会上的某一部分人也许完全有能力保护其他人的人身和财产,但又完全不适合指导我们的意见,或监督我们的私人习惯,这当然并不矛盾。

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

对于理性的、心理健康的人来说,对快乐的渴望就是庆祝自己控制了现实的渴望。对神经质的人来说,对快乐的渴望就是对现实的逃避。

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

孩子们应该知道阅读是一种乐趣,而不仅仅是老师让你在学校做的事情。