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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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

与事实的粗暴接触很快就把我的幻想和梦想赶跑了,取而代之的是社会的恐怖、腐败、邪恶和虚伪。

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

教练们面临的挑战是替换掉他们原本指望成为拼图主要部分的球员。在很多情况下,根本没有办法做出必要的调整。

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。

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.

我们生活在一个不安、困惑、困惑、害怕它自己的力量的时代,不仅要寻找它的道路,还要寻找它的方向。

To condescend effectively it is clearly necessary to adhere to a narrow definition of relevant data.

为了有效地屈尊俯就,显然有必要坚持对相关数据的狭隘定义。

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

一个人的掌声是很重要的。

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

小说是一面沿着大街的镜子。

One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.

一羊生疮,群羊遭殃。