In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

实际上,是追随,而不是强迫公众的意愿;立法的真正目的是为社会的普遍意识指明方向、提供形式、提供技术服装和给予具体的制裁。

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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

离开乐队,回到默默无闻的生活中去,如果我愿意,我不会有很大的安全感,因为这一切都是建立在这样一个事实的基础上的,那就是我是一个人做的,或者说我一开始就很享受自己做这件事。

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

我不像一开始那样倾向于认为西点军校的教育是这个行业所必需的。良好的判断力和精力是必要的素质。

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

公共住房不仅仅是一个居住的地方,公共住房项目应该为居民和他们的家庭提供机会。

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

战争不是以不同手段延续政治,而是对人类社会犯下的最大的群体性罪行。

Just as the evil inclination causes evil to seem attractive to us, it causes good to seem repulsive to us.

正如恶的倾向使恶对我们有吸引力,它也使善对我们有排斥性。

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

我喜欢衣服,我喜欢喝酒。我只是没有时间或意愿完全沉浸其中。

The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.

这里的诗坛一直非常受欢迎。