I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

  • -- Jonathan Kozol 乔纳森·考泽尔

我恳求人们不要接受圣诞前夜不合时宜的季节性慈善活动。这是亵渎。

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Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

内战的原因还包括:国家的财富掌握在太少的男人手中,没有任何特定的手段可以阻止所有的人都有乞讨、偷窃或成为灵魂食粮者的必要。

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

我并没有失去我的注意力,但是我已经厌倦了集中注意力。我所关注的是变得过于例行公事,过于例行公事,而不是一些有趣、新鲜和令人兴奋的东西。

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

仪式总是意味着扔掉一些东西:毁掉我们供奉在神坛上的谷物或葡萄酒。

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.

你不能向别人乞求他们不愿给你的东西。