My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

  • -- Tom Vilsack 汤姆·维尔萨克

我的朋友们,历史,历史召唤我们来到此时此地。摆在我们面前的是一个庄严的选择——我们将何去何从?我们的行动是否缓慢而渐进?还是我们要抓住时代的挑战,解决我们今天的重大问题?

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A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we came, into nowhere we go. What is Life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

我还有不多的时候,要从你们中间出去,往那里去,我也不知道。我们不知道从哪里来,也不知道去哪里。生命是什么?它是萤火虫在夜里的闪光。在冬天,它就像一头野牛的呼吸。它就像一个小影子,跑过草地,消失在夕阳里。

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?

想象我们的社会行为,从阿米巴变形虫到人类,也是由细胞根据储存的信息来计划和支配的,这是荒谬的吗?现在是时候赋予人类通过英勇的努力把生命带到其他世界的任务了?

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.

去斗殴的唯一好处是你可以进入绿色的房间,你可以看到一些你很久没有见过的老朋友。

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

政治变革的结果几乎从来都不是他们的朋友所希望的,也不是他们的敌人所害怕的。