At times we expected the allies unquestioningly to follow our leads; sometimes we failed to consult them in advance before reversing policies; at other times we ignored their requests.

  • -- Richard Kerry 理查德·克里

有时我们期望盟国毫无疑问地听从我们的领导;有时,我们在政策逆转之前没有事先征求他们的意见;有时我们忽略了他们的要求。

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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

当一个科学家走在时代的前面,往往是由于对当前的误解,而不是对未来真理的直觉。在科学领域,从来没有任何错误如此严重,以至于有一天,从某种角度来看,它不会显得具有预言性。

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

他仍然认为他有责任闭嘴,继续干下去,不制造任何麻烦。在我们这个时代,我们把反抗者塑造成英雄,而敢于发声则更有英雄气概。

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

经济是环境的全资子公司,而不是相反。