There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

  • -- Eldridge Cleaver 克利弗

一个伟大的国家所能招致的灾难,没有一场比得上它在仰面屈服于错误和不公正,从而丧失民族自尊和荣誉之后所带来的灾难,而在这些错误和不公正之下,人民的安全和伟大得到了保护和捍卫。

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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

事实上,一种超越其自身范围的民族语言,很快就会失去其原有的丰富内容,其效果并不比一种建构的语言好。

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

国家洪水保险计划是一个自愿的计划。如果一个社区真的觉得建筑保险要求太过繁重,他们不必参与。

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

荣誉的头衔就像硬币上的印痕,不能增加金银的价值,只能使铜流通。

The law often allows what honor forbids.

法律允许而荣誉禁止。