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革命
Revolution
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
革命的精神，起义的精神，是一种根本反对自由的精神。
Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due.
你看，我们的人民正在逐渐获得他们一直认为是他们应得的权力。
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
一场革命之所以有趣，是因为它避免了瘟疫一样的灾难——它承诺要治愈的瘟疫。
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
然而，罗伯斯庇尔并不是那种最终注定要从革命中崛起的领导人。
The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
革命就像一艘船，载满了千百万劳动人民跳动的心跳。
Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
我们的祖国就是全世界。我们的法律就是自由。我们只有一个想法，我们心中的革命。
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
我们有很多人在改变世界，因为他们从来没有提出过一个可行的模式。
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
革命的孩子们总是忘恩负义的，革命必须为此而感激。
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
工业革命是文明史上又一次非凡的飞跃。
What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.
革命之后不可避免地会出现官僚主义。无论谁赢得了这场革命，都会建立起一个官僚机构。
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
严肃的革命者，像严肃的艺术家一样，不能过感情用事或自欺欺人的生活。
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
群众是决定性的因素，是革命最后胜利的基石。
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Poverty is the parent of revolution & crime.
贫穷是革命和犯罪的根源。
The reason for all revolutions is discontent with the contentment of others.
所有革命的原因都是对他人的满足感到不满。
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings, usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
政治动荡，就像地质剧变一样，开启了世界进步的新纪元。
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
改革是纠正弊端;革命是权力的转移。
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
我认为康德所带来的哥白尼革命是哲学史上最重要的一个转折点。
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
我不禁担心，人们可能会把每一种新理论都看成是一种危险，把每一项创新都看成是一种辛苦的麻烦，把每一项社会进步都看成是走向革命的第一步，而他们可能会完全拒绝前进。