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Character is the only secure foundation of the state.
品格是国家唯一可靠的基础。
— Calvin Coolidge 卡尔文·柯立芝
同一主题，不同的表达
更多好句 ↗To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long drought.
在一个遥远的国家遇见一位老朋友，就像久旱逢甘霖一样。
佚名
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?
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?
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
阿卜杜尔·卡拉姆
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
一旦你到了一个特定的国家，周围都是非常擅长传统音乐的音乐家，你就会突然意识到有多少东西需要去探索、消化、学习和体验。
Evelyn Glennie
伊夫林·格兰妮
There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.
有一种无法逃避的依恋。如果你出生在某个地方，而环境并没有把你带离它，那么你就会在其中成长并停留。
Graham Swift
格拉汉姆·史威夫特
We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.
我们是世界上最强大的国家，但我们不是世界上唯一的国家。我们不是世界上唯一的民族。我们是一个重要的民族，最富有、最强大，而且在很大程度上慷慨大方。但我们是世界的一部分。
Studs Terkel
特克尔
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
当你看到一座城市的时候，就像读到每一个建造它的人的希望、抱负和自豪。
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
胡·纽威尔·詹克布森