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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It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

很难用一句话来描述我的研究激起的热情和奉献精神。我们几乎生活在贫困之中。我用过铅笔,两支五分钱一支,我的钢笔丢了,也买不到自来水笔。

We're the lost generation, have no place to go. The road to destruction is all we need to know.

我们是迷失的一代,无处可去。我们只需要知道毁灭之路。

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。

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

这是贫穷的痛苦诅咒之一;没有权利慷慨。