We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

  • -- Corrine Brown 柯林·布朗

我们继续补贴高速公路和航空,但当涉及到我们的客运铁路系统时,我们拒绝提供美铁公司生存所需的资金。

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

不仅失败的感觉越来越普遍,而且徒劳无益的感觉也越来越普遍。立法过程变成了一场残酷的空壳游戏,服务体系变成了官僚主义的迷宫,效率低下,令人费解,难以进入。

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

如果一个自由的人能为自己设定的最高目标是一个和蔼可亲的平庸之辈,那么这个国家所坚持的理念将不复存在。卓越意味着在人生的每个阶段都追求最高的标准。

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

我拒绝把我们的行为禁锢在严格的刑罚模式中。

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

如果我们真的不相信任何人,我们就无法生存。

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

我不熟悉公制。

I refuse to be stereotyped.

我拒绝墨守成规。