When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

  • -- John Kerry 克里

当我们远离全球变暖,京都议定书,当我们不负责任地在向非洲艾滋病迈进的道路上行动迟缓,当我们不推进和实践我们自己的言论和标准时,我们发出了一个可怕的信息,那就是表里不一和伪善。

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Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

诚实的讨论——甚至可能是关于我们不同意的话题——可以帮助我们抵制虚伪和傲慢。它们还可以帮助我们实现我们国家赖以建立的基本理想,如人人享有自由和正义。

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

实际上,英语是一种通用语言;它是音乐和与世界其他地方交流的第一语言。

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

语言不仅仅是一组词汇或一套语法规则。每一种语言都是心灵的原始森林。

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

不道德的本质是倾向于对自己破格。

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

废除糟糕法律的最好办法是严格执行。

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

在全世界,我都要支持群众反对阶级。