In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

一般来说,自从烹饪技术进步以来,人类所吃的食物是大自然所需要的两倍。

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Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality.

每当经济和技术发展向前迈进一步,就会出现各种力量,企图为经济和技术层面上已经或多或少成为现实的东西创造政治形式。

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

如果除一人之外的所有人都持同一种意见,那么人类就没有理由压制那个人,正如他如果有权力,也没有理由压制人类一样。

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

肉体独自承受现在的风暴;过去的、未来的以及现在的思想。暴食是一种精神上的欲望。

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

非洲人要求、想要以一人一票为基础的选举权。他们想要政治独立。

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

在爱情中,正如在暴饮暴食中一样,快乐是一件极其精确的事情。

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

人类在最绝望的时候往往是在最好的时候。