There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

  • -- Bruce Babbitt 布鲁斯·巴比特

这里有一种基本的张力。有人说,我想把这片森林砍伐掉,把它砍成锯材,因为这对我来说是一件具有经济效益的事情。

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The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.

我们越慷慨,我们就越快乐。我们越合作,我们就越有价值。我们的热情越高,我们的效率就越高。我们越服事人,就越昌盛。

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

我们可以自信地说的一件事是,我们将拥有更轻、更坚固的材料,这将降低航空飞行的成本,以及火箭的成本。

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

人类每天都在变得越来越聪明。事实上,似乎是这样。至少我们正在取得进展。毫无疑问,我们正在向森林深处推进。

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

我们通过研究女性和男性来减少几乎所有的男性和女性的问题。这通常意味着双方都要承担责任。

If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.

如果你设法阻止木材工业砍伐这片森林,他们就会砍伐那片森林。如果你停止在这里开采石油,他们就会到那里去开采。

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

当然,失态不符合这个计划。我们应该是忙碌而富有成效的公民。

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

如果你在森林里讲一个笑话,但是没有人笑,那是一个笑话吗?

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

我不喜欢剪得太夸张或太完美。

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

城市使我产生忧郁或一种我不需要的紧张感。

Can we cut the cake? I have a three-way to go to.

我们能切蛋糕吗?我有三条路要走。

Music is like a huge release of tension.

音乐是一种释放紧张情绪的巨大方式。