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。

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

抚养孩子是一项极其艰难和危险的工作,没有积累的智慧:每一代人都在重复上一代人所犯的错误。

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

对于那些富有的人来说,没有什么比想象别人是如何陷入贫困更困难的了。

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

有时听到年轻一代要求他们的同龄人重复自己的话是很滑稽的。