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The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

  • -- Ernst Mach 恩斯特马赫

我们给自己规定的任务仅仅是表明我们为什么和为了什么而在生活的大部分时间里坚持这一立场，以及我们为什么和为了什么而暂时不得不放弃这一立场。

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When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

当民选官员抛弃我们的环境并破坏我们的自然资源时，公共卫生就受到了威胁。我知道为我们的孩子提供一个干净的环境的重要性;我参加过不止一个孩子的葬礼，他死于哮喘发作。

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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

作为个人和国家，我们现在正遭受着社会自恋的折磨。我们祖先深爱的回声，原始美洲，已经被遗弃了。我们爱上了自己的形象，爱上了自己创造的形象，而这些形象原来就是我们自己的形象。

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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

世人以职业上的才能来判断一个人，我们也以同样的标准来判断自己:因为我们在生活中成功与否，也取决于这个标准。

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After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

经过几个月的饥寒交迫，我们突然发现自己能吃上一顿神赐的美餐了。

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

把第一次生命过得好的人，就能活两次。

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We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

我们开创了无风险的生活，什么都不发生。

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