Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

  • -- Pearl S. Buck 珍珠红

我们的社会必须使老年人不惧怕年轻人或不被年轻人抛弃成为可能,这是正确的,因为对一个文明的考验是它如何照顾其无助的成员。

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Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.

文明是一个过程,在这个过程中,一个人逐渐增加“我们”或“我们”这个词所包含的人数,同时减少那些被贴上“你”或“他们”标签的人,直到这个类别中没有剩下一个人。

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

虽然文明一直在改善我们的住房,但它并没有同样改善住在其中的人。它创造了宫殿,但创造贵族和国王并不容易。

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

每个人都认为这个文明已经持续了很长时间,但它真的需要很少的祖父的孙女带我们回到黑暗时代。

He drew a circle that shut me out -- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.

他画了一个圈,把我拒之门外 异端,叛逆者,一个值得蔑视的东西。 但爱和我有智慧赢了: 我们画了一个圈把他带进去。