It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

  • -- Genevieve Gorder 格涅维耶夫戈尔德

这并不是说要改造一个对颜色有不良品味的人的客厅。这是关于修复历史建筑,并向社区灌输自豪感,这可以通过设计新的公共空间和社交聚会场所来实现。

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If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.

如果说在过去的几十年里,重大的历史事件把人们聚集在一起,使他们朝着集体行动的方向前进,那么,最近的双重趋势——更多的选择,但更少的安全——使年轻人从更个人的角度看待自己的生活。大事件集团化。小事件分裂。

Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

建立一家成功的公司(或过上幸福的生活),不是要接受别人的哲学,而是要忠于自己对世界的信念,并从错误中吸取教训。

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

我最重要的项目是为我在喜马拉雅的朋友们建造和维护学校和诊所,并帮助他们修复美丽的寺庙。

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

没有风险就没有脆弱性;没有脆弱性就没有社区;没有社区,就没有和平,最终也就没有生命。

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

经过一个世纪的努力,经过一年的辩论,经过一次历史性的投票,医疗改革不再是一个没有兑现的承诺。这是国家的法律。

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

房子本身并不重要。它与社区的关系才是真正重要的。

The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

别墅花园;大部分是为使用而设计的,但并不缺乏美感。

No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

从来没有人对我的设计做过任何贡献。