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革命
Revolution
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
在我们的电脑俱乐部里，我们说这是一场革命。电脑将属于每个人，给我们力量，把我们从拥有电脑的人那里解放出来。
We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
我们已经证实了一件我们只在理论上知道的事情，那就是革命，在这场革命中，不受控制和不受控制的力量专横地进行着，是盲目的和破坏性的，是宏伟的和残酷的。
Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.
革命是一个阶段，一种情绪，就像春天一样，正如春天有它的花蕾和阵雨一样，革命也有它的激情、勇气、希望和团结。有些事情过去了。
We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.
我们需要一场能源革命，打破对化石燃料、污染燃料的依赖……我非常、非常有信心，我们这个小国将领导这项工作。我们将受到国家和世界的关注。
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
革命以后，很可能仍然需要把人安置在他们不能伤害别人的地方。但是，受到约束的人应该尽可能少地与社会其他部分隔绝。
As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
正如任何技术革命一样，总会有赢家和输家。总的来说，每个人都会走在前面，尽管有些特定的公司将无法适应新的环境。
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
要达到战士的心境不是一件简单的事情。这是一场革命。把狮子、水鼠和我们的同胞平等看待是战士精神的伟大表现。这需要力量。
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.
假设我们能够自由地分享意义，而不是强迫自己强加自己的观点或遵从他人的观点，也没有扭曲和自欺欺人。这难道不会构成一场真正的文化革命吗?
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
让我们希望，在革命之后，监狱将不复存在- -如果我们所说的监狱是指监狱中的男女所能体验到的地方，那么现在每一个以这个名字命名的地方都必然会体验到。
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
那些谈论革命和阶级斗争而不明确提及日常生活，不理解什么是爱的颠覆性，什么是拒绝约束的积极一面的人，他们的嘴里含着一具尸体。
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。
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We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
我们没有进行革命，是革命造就了我们。
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
下等人造反是为了平等，平等的人造反是为了优越。
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
谁革命只进行了一半，就等于自掘坟墓。
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
没有一场革命，就不会带来真正的社会变革……革命不过是思想付诸行动。
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。
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
革命就像土星，吞噬它自己的孩子。