If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.

  • -- Paul Hawken 保罗·霍肯

如果像自然的那样,你把注意力集中在腐败和那些受到威胁的试图阻止变革的机构上——尽管它们并不真正知道自己试图阻止什么——那么你就会变得悲观。

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Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?

不,人们对自己的罪过远没有沉思默想,反而鄙视这种做法,甚至还嘲笑它。我们该怎么办呢?我们是否应该一直关注我们的腐败?

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

作为一名专栏作家,我意识到,不管我揭露了多少腐败,半数读者都会把它挡在门外,尽管他们可能会在这个过程中感到一阵喜悦。

Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

我们为什么要在舞台上改变?我们并不是想要做什么大事,只是我们自己,做我们所做的,我们想要保持这种状态。

I can't change the Dark Lord's mind. But it might be possible for me to help Draco.

我无法改变黑魔王的想法。但我可能会帮助德拉科。