The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

  • -- Charles Hodge 霍奇

因此,这些长老的职责决定了人民的权力;因为代表是由别人选择以他们的名义做他们有权以他们自己的名义做的事;或者更确切地说,是行使他们为之行动的人内在的根本力量。

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I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

我的工作选择摆在我面前,我选择一份工作的原因可能会因环境的不同而大不相同。有时候,我接受一份工作,是因为它是一群我渴望与之共事的人,有时候,它可能是一种想要改变一些事情,而不是把自己看得太严肃的愿望。

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.

当我回忆起今天我年轻的时候,我应该把那个男孩看作是我当时的样子,除了一些个别的特征外,对于一个不同的人来说,如果不是因为记忆链的存在。

Some people dream of success, others stay awake to achieve it.

有些人梦想成功,有些人保持清醒来实现它。

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

你可以用一个人的梦想的大小来衡量他。