People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

  • -- Elizabeth Gaskell 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔

人们认为自己的缺点总是存在于他人的脑海中,就好像他们相信这个世界总是在审视他们个人的魅力和美德一样,他们也可能因此而沾沾自喜。

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In the back of our minds, we know we have to give them one tiny bit of hope. We have complete faith in what we are doing because every time we go out there, it is our job to give them hope that every day will be a better day.

在我们的内心深处,我们知道我们必须给他们一线希望。我们对我们正在做的事情充满信心,因为每次我们走出去,我们的工作就是给他们希望,让他们每一天都变得更好。

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.

唯一可以改变世界的人是现在生活在这个世界上的人,他们带着所有的信念——不管这些信念在我们这些自认为是开明的人看来多么倒退。

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

我们十年的变革释放了世界上最非凡的人民的聪明才智、创造力和个性,他们来自世界各地,来自这个国家。

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

在动物的思想中,人类的领导,不是作为来自另一个星球的半神,而是作为来自同一种族的国王。

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.

我不敢相信我能站在每年夏天我所站的舞台上,唱我所唱的歌。

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

在财政方面,我非常保守。我不相信福利国家。我相信给人们工作。

People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.

人们喜欢陈词滥调。如果你能给人们一些陈词滥调,那就是非常好的电视节目。

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

我们平等地来到这个世界,也平等地离开这个世界。