Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

人类可以改变他们的气候,但不能改变他们的本性。一个出去当傻瓜的人,既不能骑马,也不能航海,使自己进入常识。

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When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.

当然,当我一年级的时候,每个人都取笑我的名字。我觉得当你9岁的时候,这是个挺大的名字。这似乎是愚蠢的。我曾经告诉人们我想改变世界,他们曾经想,‘这个孩子真的很奇怪’。

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

听着,很明显,在气候变化问题上,有一些事情是迫切需要做的,其中最明显的是要有一个可执行的、公平的安排,在本世纪中叶大幅削减排放。

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

如果你否认任何行为准则都是所有试图理性行事的人所共有的,并得到他们的承认,那么,我看不出你怎么会有任何道德或法律方面的道德背景。

My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.

我的耳朵骗不了我。即使当我在做一个关于数字的课程时,我们仍然在这个过程的某个地方使它升温,在控制或混合的过程中,在某个地方通过一些管道运行信号。

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

气候保护在建筑、重型机械生产和系统工程等实体经济领域创造了可持续性和就业机会。

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

一首歌就像一个马鞍:你骑一会儿,如果它是正确的类型的歌,你可以唱它的余生。

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

我们在其他地方如此疯狂地寻找的,可能就是我们一直骑着的那匹马。

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.

休斯公司有一项禁止在午餐时喝酒的政策,但那些人却置之不理。

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

一个人越没有安全感,就越有可能产生极端的偏见。

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

专家就是对越来越少的东西知道得越来越多的人。

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

变革的缓慢通常意味着对新事物的恐惧。

Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.

不要给猪樱桃,也不要给傻瓜忠告。