You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

  • -- Paul Auster 保罗·奥斯特

你也必须保护它,你不能让任何一个愚蠢的人拿着它去做一些让人泄气的事情。与此同时,我也不认为要对所发生的事情进行如此严格的控制。

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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则,即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风,但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利,而平等的法律必须保护这些权利,侵犯这些权利就是压迫。

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

当我去阿富汗的时候,我意识到,由于随机的基因抽签,我得以幸免,因为我出生在那些有能力逃离阿富汗的人的家里。每次我去阿富汗,我都被这个问题所困扰。

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

阁下,虽然还没有完全过了您的青年时代,但您的内心已经有些老了的味道,有些对时间的咸味的享受了。

Seclusion wasn't good for anyone; it made you forget how to protect yourself.

与世隔绝对任何人都没有好处;它让你忘记了如何保护自己。