The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

  • -- Ray Nagin 雷·纳金

我们这个城市的人民危在旦夕。时间已经不多了。我们能再活一个晚上吗?我们能依靠谁呢?只有上帝知道。

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I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

我在祖父去世前见到了他,那是我第一次看到父亲和他的一个亲戚在一起。很有趣的是,我把自己的父亲看作一个儿子,他的肢体语言和态度也随之改变,这让我们的关系变得更好。

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

生活本来就不容易。处于高位或低位是很难接受的。我想我是宿命论者。我认为,你必须有历史感,才能在这些事情中生存下来……生活是一个接一个的危机。

Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to achieve it.

秩序是天堂的第一法则,你必须有秩序才能在地球上生存。找出每天、每周、每年必须做的事情,并开发一个系统来实现它。

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

对现在的责任不忠的人,会把织布机上的一根线弄断,当你解开一生的织布时,你就会看到效果。

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

人们会越来越明白这一点。控制制高点的需求将会增长。

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

我一直不明白,为什么人们有了孩子,却仍然像什么都没有改变一样坚持生活。

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

我们的生活中有很多线索。你拉一个,其他的都会受到影响。

The sound of a church bell at times has more effect than a sermon.

教堂的钟声有时比布道更有效果。