We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

我们都生活在某些我们称之为原则的懦弱的保护之中。

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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

此外,从生态原则推导出的实用建议威胁着商业的既得利益;这些投资所产生的财政和政治权力有时应被用来压制环境影响研究,这并不令人惊讶。

I guess what scares me the most now is the thought that I won't be able to protect you.

我想现在最让我害怕的是我无法保护你。

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

为了拯救自由市场体系,我不得不放弃自由市场原则。

Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.

即使是强大的国家有时也需要保护。