The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

  • -- Christopher James Christie 克里斯托弗·詹姆斯·克里斯蒂

事实是你不能继续把我们的钱花在这些福利项目上。我认为我们在公共生活中需要更多的人愿意说,不,我们买不起某些东西。不,我们不能做某些事情。

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It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

公平地说,那些努力工作,早上起床,削减他们的衣服-换句话说,“我们只能负担得起一个或两个孩子,因为我们没有足够的收入”。他们交税,他们想知道同样的决策也发生在那些领救济金的人身上。

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

一个人必须接受痛苦是生存的条件。一个人必须追求怀疑和黑暗作为了解的代价。一个人需要在冲突中固执的意志,但总是倾向于完全接受生与死的每一个后果。

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

最终,我们需要认识到,当人类继续建造城市景观时,我们与其他物种共享这些空间。

For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.

对很多人来说,每周的工资是“带回家的工资”,因为家是他们唯一能负担得起的地方。

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

我感觉就像摇滚明星觉得自己理所当然,而我只是觉得自己很幸运。