I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

  • -- Andrew Jackson 安德鲁·杰克逊

我为我的国家的自由而哭泣,当我看到在这个成功的试验的早期,腐败已被归咎于许多众议院议员,人民的权利已被用来换取执政的承诺。

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It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.

获得权力很容易。你可以做出承诺,试着成为所有人的一切。但当你不得不做出决定的时候,你会惹恼至少一半的人。无论你做什么,最终你几乎肯定会被你自己的性格特点打倒。

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

我们的国家现在走的道路是如此稳定,以致于表明它将走哪条路走向毁灭,也就是说:首先通过巩固权力,然后是腐败,来显示其必然的后果。

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

我深受女性杂志的影响,我真的认为一个女人不可能同时结婚、养家和事业有成。

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

从我读到的采访中,有一点我很清楚,那就是更受欢迎的成功爵士音乐家拥有的听众不仅限于音乐圈。

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

我有时会失败这一事实与我在其他人身上会成功这一事实是相当平衡的。

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

就是这样。简的毒瘾实验结束了,遗憾和宽慰各占一半。

We are all self made but only the successful will admit it.

我们都是自己创造的,但只有成功者才会承认这一点。

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

傻瓜是一生中从未做过实验的人。

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

最好的东西坏了,就会产生最坏的东西。

Eggs and oaths are easily broken.

鸡蛋和誓言很容易被打破。