If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

如果你想研究现代国家的社会和政治史,那就去研究地狱吧。

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We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

我们必须认真考虑信用卡安全解决方案,例如添加照片或机器可读的电子条带,以防止由于社会保险卡设计的改变而进一步侵犯个人隐私。

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

现在在科学中已经确立了这样一种观点:如果有原因和开始,那么除了通过研究其原因和开始之外,就不可能获得任何知识;除非知道它的事故和伴随的要点,否则它不会完成。

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

从最伟大的国家联盟到市镇会议或法衣室,从来没有存在过一种不互相争吵的人的联盟。

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

我最讨厌的是一些人的傲慢。他们甚至不听我们的音乐,他们事先就决定不喜欢。

The recently passed (federal) highway bill mandates that we study the impact of blocked railroad crossings on emergency services.

最近通过的(联邦)高速公路法案要求我们研究铁路封锁对紧急服务的影响。

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

我总是对男人保持警惕,我想这有时会成为一种障碍。我能让他们下地狱。

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

我所做的一切。我一直按照自己的意愿生活。我从来没有听过任何人的话。我是顽固的。

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

保守派不知不觉地站在了破坏传统价值观的社会力量一边。

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

最幸福的女人,就像最幸福的民族一样,没有历史。

We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.

我们不希望它成为通用汽车的绊脚石。