This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  • -- Barney Frank 巴尼·弗兰克

这一法案在立法上相当于漏洞。它会产生短期高点,但会对系统造成长期损害,而且启动成本很高。

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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。

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

我本来只是一个茶水男孩,或者类似的人,但我很快就宣布,我想成为一名外国记者,我很天真,但也很雄心勃勃。

By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.

通过完善这一立法机制和参加各项国际协定,我们打算为世界贸易的健康发展作出贡献。

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

在敦提向一名男子扔鞋,相当于在伦敦亲吻他的脸颊和拥抱。邓迪是一个非常不同的地方;他们有自己的规则。