Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

  • -- Ulysses S. Grant 格兰特

国家和个人一样,都要为他们的罪行受到惩罚。

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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

对全体民众来说,变革、成长和自发性是危险的。根据个人的欲望行事,低声诉说隐藏的渴望,揭示你的真实感受——所有我们认为对一个角色至关重要的人类行为——都被自我审查,以免受到国家的惩罚。

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

所有这些国家似乎都很欣赏我所做的一切,他们希望我能把事情做到最好。

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

商业改变国家的命运和天才。

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

我可能会因为生活艰辛而受到惩罚。