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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The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.

因此,对物理学的大部分和整个化学进行数学处理所必需的基本定律是完全知道的,而困难之处在于,应用这些定律会导致方程过于复杂而无法求解。

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

我为我的国家的自由而哭泣,当我看到在这个成功的试验的早期,腐败已被归咎于许多众议院议员,人民的权利已被用来换取执政的承诺。

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

听着,我们知道当我们占多数的时候我们搞砸了。我们爱上了权力。我们花了太多钱,特别是专项拨款。我们经营这个地方的时候腐败太严重了。我们是有罪的。这就是我们失败的原因。

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

当你有一个全球性的混乱,人们失去他们的身份,他们成为假名,他们没有投资和后果,他们所做的。

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

幸福不是奖赏,而是结果。痛苦不是惩罚,而是结果。

I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place.

我宁愿开那条黄砖路,你不会碰巧知道有个租车的地方。

There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

没有什么能代替路上的拥挤和相互了解。

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

如果我们做必要的事,所有的机会都对我们有利。