The "trickle-down" theory: The principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

  • -- William Blum 威廉·布鲁姆

“涓滴效应”理论:穷人必须靠富人扔在餐桌上的残羹剩饭维生,而富人吃得越多,穷人就能吃得越多。

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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

当激流把一个人冲到一块大石头上时,你必须期待他会尖叫,如果尖叫有时只是一种理论,你也不必感到惊讶。

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

人们的智力往往与他们的人数成反比。当人们进入更大的群体时,他们并不会变得更聪明。

God wants to use you but he doesn't need you. He just sees something bigger in you than you see in yourself.

上帝想要利用你,但他不需要你。他只是在你身上看到了比你自己更重要的东西。

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

理论帮助我们忍受对事实的无知。