The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

  • -- Gore Vidal 戈尔·维达尔

我们的统治阶级的天才之处在于,它阻止了大多数人对一个大多数人辛辛苦苦地工作,却得不到任何回报地缴纳重税的制度的不公平提出质疑。

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If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

如果你用一流的土地来生产生物燃料,那么你就是在与粮食的种植竞争。因此,将能源生产转移到农业领域实际上是在推高食品价格。

For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return.

因为你们尝过飞行的滋味,就必在地上行走,举目向天,因为你们曾在那里,也必盼望归回。

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

真爱始于不求任何回报。

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

我被鼓励在课堂上大声朗读和发声。