For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

  • -- Albert Camus 阿尔伯特·加缪

几个世纪以来,死刑常常伴随着野蛮的改良,一直试图遏制犯罪;然而,犯罪依然存在。为什么?因为人的本能在交战,并不像法律所宣称的那样,是处于平衡状态的恒常力量。

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It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

只是所有的一切都戛然而止,到了一无所有的地步,我才终于意识到,嘿,你为什么要和这个做斗争?在那之前,我并没有把我的信仰当作自己的信仰;我是伴随着它长大的。

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

这是一种犯罪,因为历史上伟大的戏剧,可以追溯到古希腊,是每个人的遗产的一部分。就像在音乐中,贝多芬或莫扎特,那是每个人的遗产。

Egalitarian policies are the best way to unite and empower people, and are also a necessary counterweight to the sometimes detrimental influence of market forces.

平等主义政策是团结和赋予人民权力的最佳方式,也是抵消市场力量有时有害影响的必要手段。

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

他对自己家的所有权很深,但鬼太多了。他必须吸收而不被吸收。

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

潜逃-以一种神秘的方式移动,通常带有另一种性质。

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

在通往毁灭的道路上,从来都伴随着对理想的口惠而实不至。

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

发现证人和抓捕罪犯一样重要。

Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook, but he always looks.

朱庇特看他的笔记本很慢,但他总是在看。

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

通常,你在媒体上看到的是由经济力量驱动的。