There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

如果人民失去他们的粗暴和反抗精神,暴政就不会在任何一周、任何一天、任何时刻降临这个国家。

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Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

每一个真正的祷告都是教会的祷告;因为那住在教会里的圣灵,在各人心里,用说不出来的叹息,在我们里面祷告。

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

像我们这样的人不敢离开球。还有什么可做的?当棒球成为你的全部生活时,你无法想象没有它的未来,所以你要尽可能地坚持下去。

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

当我年轻的时候,我吻了我的第一个女人,并在同一天抽了我的第一支烟。相信我,从那以后我再也没有在烟草上浪费时间了。

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

心胸狭窄、缺乏想象力的小个子男人过着循规蹈矩的生活,沾沾自喜地抵制一切可能会扰乱他们的小天地的变化。

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

无限的权力容易腐蚀拥有它的人的思想;诸位大人,我知道,法律的终点就是暴政的起点。

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

我希望有一天能够像父母爱孩子那样,用同样的热情和无私去爱他们。

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

好的艺术是允许你从不同的角度进入它,并以不同的观点出现的艺术。

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.

所有地震和灾难都是警告;世界上有太多的腐败。

I created them, and they reward my love with defiance? There will be no truce!

我创造了他们,他们却用反抗来回报我的爱?不会有休战!

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

自我主义者是一个品味低下的人——对自己比对我更感兴趣。

If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch the tiger's cub?

如果你不进入虎穴,怎么能抓住老虎的幼仔呢?

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

上周,我去了费城,但它关门了。

I just try work out at least twice a week if I can.

如果可以的话,我每周至少锻炼两次。

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs

如果机会属于他们,奴隶就会成为暴君

A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.

活泼的精神使我的长号歌唱。