Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

  • -- Germaine Greer 格里尔

也许灾难是自然的人类环境,尽管我们花费了大量的精力试图摆脱它,但我们已经为在灾难中生存做好了准备。

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The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

和平宣传的方法旨在通过辩论建立和平学说,并在一般情况下创造一种有利于和平的感觉,但这些方法似乎没有达到人类行动的源泉,也没有处理他们试图改变的行为的原因。

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

对权利的要求和对义务的坚持可能取决于条约的规定,或国际法的规则,或适用于特定案件情况的自然正义感,或有争议的事实。

This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

这种可能性让我感到困扰,因为我认为留在一个学术环境是不可取的,爱丁堡漫长而黑暗的冬天可能会相当沉闷。

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

灵魂的自然运动是向上的。但是,正如任何物体被沉重的重量所拖累一样,身体的负担也会拖累灵魂。

We had been taken from The Wild and brought together in one place, because, for some strange reason, people found us interesting.

我们从野外被带到了一个地方,因为某种奇怪的原因,人们觉得我们很有趣。

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

仅仅是寻找人类的社会责任,就已经是一项繁重的工作了。