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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

  • -- Paul David Hewson 保罗·大卫·休森

事实上，我们这一代人是第一代能够正视疾病和极端贫困的人，能够跨越大洋来到非洲，并且说到做到。我们不需要忍受这些。整个大陆都被一笔勾销了——我们不必忍受这种情况。

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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

如果我们正遭受疾病、贫穷或不幸，我们认为在它停止的那一天我们就会得到满足。但在这一点上，我们也知道它是假的;一旦一个人习惯了不受苦，他就想要别的东西。

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I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

我记得我被它所震撼——它的独特和精致的风格——我怀疑我有点嫉妒，因为我们差不多是同一代人。

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The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society.

认为贫穷在富裕社会中是道德上不能容忍的看法，必须等待富裕社会的出现。

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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

人们发现，每个时代都必须写自己的书;或者更确切地说，每一代都是为了下一代的成功。

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