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革命
Revolution
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
工业革命倾向于在任何地方产生大量的城市居民，他们似乎越来越忽视道德标准。
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
使我彻底绝望的是，我发现，而且每天都有新的发现，群众中没有革命的思想，没有希望，没有激情。
Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.
为什么男人要谈论他们穿的衣服?我觉得这太没男子气了。这就像革命前的凡尔赛宫，没有风格。
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.
二十岁的人充满斗志和希望。他想改革世界。当他七十岁时，他仍然想改革世界，但他知道他不能。
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
革命不是某种固定的意识形态，也不是某种特定年代的产物。这是人类精神中一个永恒的过程。
Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
因此，在两代人的时间内，工会对从事其行业的妇女的态度发生了一场彻底的革命。
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.
考虑到这篇文章是革命方面的政治小册子，以及它是辉格派福音长达一个世纪的事实，你将看到它的工作价值。
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
革命既不能进行，也不能停止。唯一能做的就是让它的几个孩子中的一个凭借胜利给它指明方向。
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
以机械为基础的工业化，已经被称为我们这个时代的一个特点，只是由技术正在进行的革命的一个方面。
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
没有人能独自完成一场革命;有些革命是人类在不知不觉中完成的，因为每个人都掌握着它们。
It's the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance.
这是一个人能做的最起码的事情，像我这样的人，对这个民族和这场革命亏欠太多:努力学习，但更重要的是，在任何情况下都要保护他们。
We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.
我们革命者承认革命的权利，当我们看到局势已经不能容忍，已经冻结。那么我们就有权推翻它。
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There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
历史上很少有个别历史能够在没有战争或革命的情况下走自己的路。
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。
Every heart is made of stories.
每颗心都是由故事组成的。
Reality is highly overrated.
现实被严重高估了。
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。
I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.
我一直说，我们没有料到街头会发生革命。