I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

  • -- Cormac McCarthy 麦卡锡

我很早就觉得自己不会成为一个受人尊敬的公民。

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By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.

通过鼓励墨西哥公民侵犯我们的边境,墨西哥正在把巨大的福利负担从自己的肩上推到我们的肩上,同时也受益于这些工人最终将寄回家的巨额美元。

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

我所属的那些体面的圈子里,那个体面的圈子里的所有人,那个我不知道安全的价值的圈子,都在反对我,他们知道,一旦失去或抛弃安全,就没有什么机会来代替它了。

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

每隔一段时间,你就能活得足够长,得到人们在你努力成为老年人时不愿给予的尊重。

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

如果你能把生意做得足够大,那是值得尊敬的。