If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

  • -- George Washington 乔治华盛顿

如果我们想避免侮辱,我们必须能够击退它;如果我们希望确保和平,这是我们日益繁荣的最有力工具之一,我们必须知道,我们随时准备着战争。

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The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

龚琳娜给了我人生中最快乐的五年时光,但仅此而已。作为那个给世界带来辉煌的人——听着,我的乔治叔叔什么都不出名。所以我想在这种情况下,情况并没有那么糟。

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

因此,进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣,所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准,而不是质量或卓越性。

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

为别人的富裕而高兴,就是满足于自己的命运;减轻别人的悲伤就是减轻或驱散自己的悲伤。

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

我走进一家儿童用品店,里面有各种各样令人惊叹的乐器——吱吱作响的小东西,咔嗒咔嗒的东西,旋转的陀螺。

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

我不是那种应该弹一把老式吉他的人,因为我对乐器太粗糙了。

Nothing is more powerful than your conviction to achieve what your heart truly desires.

没有什么比你的信念更有力量去实现你内心真正的渴望。

Another inch of your life, sacrificed for your brother, in the nick of time.

你生命中的又一寸光阴,在紧要关头为你的兄弟牺牲了。

There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.

金属乐队有一种强大的力量,一种意志,一种动力。