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The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.

  • -- Daniel Hannan 丹尼尔·汉南

岛上的反种族隔离囚犯，就像各个时代和国家的许多人一样，发现莎士比亚有一种特殊的能力来缓和他们的处境。他们过去常常偷偷地聚在一起看戏;有一次，这本书被分发给每个人，让他们写下自己最喜欢的台词。

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You know, if we're going to bring down the price of gas, you have to have three things. You have to have a big reserve, you have to have the ability to develop oil out of that reserve quickly, and you have to be able to produce oil at a relatively low cost.

你知道，如果我们要降低汽油的价格，你必须有三件事。你必须有一个很大的储备，你必须有能力从储备中迅速开发石油，你必须能够以相对较低的成本生产石油。

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It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

正是普通、正直、正直的品质造就了我们国家的稳定和成功。这是一种值得骄傲的品质。但很多人似乎忽视了这一点。

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The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for.

蜡烛不是为我们而燃烧，而是为所有那些我们没能从监狱里救出的人而燃烧，他们在入狱的路上中弹，被拷打，被绑架，“失踪”了。这就是蜡烛的作用。

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Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

自由不是没有承诺，而是选择——并承诺自己——对自己最好的东西的能力。

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No man shall have the right to fix the boundary to the march of a Nation.

任何人都无权定出一个民族行进的边界。

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If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?

如果我们去吉娃娃狗，我们必须被视为战俘吗?

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