Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

我们的国家现在走的道路是如此稳定,以致于表明它将走哪条路走向毁灭,也就是说:首先通过巩固权力,然后是腐败,来显示其必然的后果。

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As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

因此,进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣,所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准,而不是质量或卓越性。

I've always like road racing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.

我一直喜欢公路赛车,但你知道当你年轻的时候家里是什么样子的。他们认为这有点太危险了,所以我开始尝试骑马。

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

所有必要的事情都很容易。你必须接受它。这个星球上最必要、最自然的物质就是死亡。

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

给我们平等的享受,平等的发展权利——这对我们的繁荣和你们的繁荣同样必要。

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

腐败犯罪的共犯往往是我们自己的冷漠。

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

我想让国家摆脱腐败,恢复我们的经济环境。

Don't neglect the consequence of your act.

不要忽视你行为的后果。