We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

我们这些自由进步的人知道,穷人与我们在任何意义上都是平等的,除了与我们平等之外。

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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

所有人都有平等的权利自由发展自己的才能;他们有平等的权利得到国家的公正保护;但这不是真的,它违背了所有理性和公平的法则,它违背了事物永恒的本性。

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

我绝对反对那种认为新闻界是自由的,它所做的是自由的观点。在我看来,这就像指控医生玩忽职守或律师渎职一样。

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right -- it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

新政治的希望不在于形成左翼对右翼的回应——而在于拒绝传统的政治类别。

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

你知道,有时候,当他们说你赶时间的时候,这只是一种礼貌的说法,意思是你对时间的把握很差。

My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.

我对观众的责任感是放映他们在当地剧院永远不会看到的东西。

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

我很乐意承认女人比男人优越,只要她们不再试图和我们一样就好了。

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

我是一个国家安全自由主义者,我告诉人们这些,因为这听起来很荒谬。

Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.

自由主义者认为他们再也不能从媒体那里得到公平的待遇了。

Great birth is a very poor dish at table.

出身高贵是餐桌上一道很差劲的菜。

Poor relations have little honour.

穷亲戚没有什么名誉。