Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

  • -- Ella Maillart 梅拉特

每次我离开家很长一段时间,我觉得我好像要征服世界。求你将我长子的名分,就是我的产业,夺过来。

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Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.

为什么公民身份应该是一个出生问题?那些想要终止出生公民权的人所持的前提是,有些人应该享有,有些人不应该——这种身份不应该自动被授予。坦白地说,这是一个值得考虑的前提。

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

我的过程是当我记录的时候由我自己。当别人在房间里的时候,这是一个相当情绪化的表现。我更喜欢离开,有我自己的时间,以后再带回来。

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

在世界范围内,拥有专断的权力总是不可抗拒地破坏人类的感性、宽宏大量和真理。

For a long time, I wanted to become a theologian. Now, however, behold, how through my efforts God is being glorified through astronomy.

很长一段时间以来,我一直想成为一名神学家。然而如今神因我的努力,在天文学上得了荣耀。

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

听我话的、认识我的、就作我的子民、永得为业。