Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

  • -- Ida B. Wells 艾达·B·威尔斯

我国的国家犯罪是私刑。它不是一个小时的产物,不是突然爆发的无法控制的愤怒,也不是一个疯狂的暴民说不出的暴行。

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Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

今天关于公民身份的讨论常常是空洞无物的。这个词在日常会话中有一种略微过时的感觉。当它在国家政治中被唤起时,通常伴随着文化战争迫击炮轰鸣而来。

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

黑人从白人男子对其种族的妇女犯下的这一罪行中所遭受的痛苦远远超过白人从他的罪行中所遭受的痛苦。

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

我认为自己有能力傲慢和野蛮……发现自己最鄙视别人的地方是一件很残酷的事情。

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

思想是世界上伟大的战士,一场没有思想支持的战争就是一种残忍。

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

我得到的认可介于当地气象学家和国家气象学家之间。

The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.

一年四季都没有受到犯罪和战争的干扰。