Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot.

  • -- Robert Dale Owen 罗伯特·戴尔·欧文

你能展望我们国家的未来,想象在奴隶制仍然存在的情况下,我们应该得到永久和平的保证吗?我不能。

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We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing about. But when I put forward this simple notion, I was greeted with a volley of resentment.

我们可以节俭地生活。你工作越少,花的时间就越少,你就有越多的时间闲逛。但当我提出这个简单的想法时,我遭到了一连串的不满。

Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.

展望未来,当我们为了国土安全而努力加强边境时,我们也必须认识到移民改革在经济上的重要性。

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

我宁愿要最不公平的和平,也不愿要最正义的战争。

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

我父母希望他们的第一个孩子平安。