Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

-- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 阿卜杜尔·卡拉姆

作为一个国家，我们为何如此痴迷于外国事物?它是我们殖民时代的遗产吗?我们需要外国电视机。我们要洋装。我们需要外国技术。为什么对进口商品如此痴迷?

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Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

这些条约中的每一项都是维护和平的一个步骤，是防止战争的一项额外保障。正是通过这种机制，国家间的争端才能得到解决，战争才能避免。

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In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

事实上，有效地声援穷人，包括个人和整个国家，对建设和平是必不可少的。

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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

一个民族与其说是思想和理论的集合体，不如说是一种执着。

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Cure for an obsession: get another one.

治愈强迫症:再买一个。

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