A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
系统
System
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
人,活着的生物,创造的个体,总是比任何既定的风格或体系更重要。
My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.
我父亲是监狱看守。我的父亲是你的体制…我只是你创造的我。我只是你的一个影子。
You're captives of a civilization system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.
你们是一个文明体系的俘虏,这个文明体系或多或少迫使你们为了生存而继续毁灭世界。
I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.
我会拿到助学贷款,拿到钱,注册,然后就再也不去了。我原以为这个系统会以某种方式成功。
You’re captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.
你们是一个文明体系的俘虏,这个文明体系或多或少迫使你们为了生存而继续毁灭世界。
What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
嘻哈音乐的问题在于它的定义是由一个系统来控制的。电视广播需要更多的平衡。
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
当你遭受神经攻击时,你正在遭受神经系统的攻击。一个人有什么机会反对一个制度呢?
There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
从来没有一个伟大的制度是靠武力来维持的,在这个制度下,人类所有最优秀的才能都没有慢慢衰退。
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
大众消费、广告和大众艺术是企业的弗兰肯斯坦;它们在强化这一体系的同时,也在破坏它。
I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.
我不遵循任何制度。当创造的时刻到来时,你所能制定的所有法律只不过是一堆靠山。
Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.
当然,我在货币体系上已经采取了非常温和的立场,我确实认为我们应该结束美联储。
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
说到中枢神经系统,以及感觉疼痛、饥饿和口渴的能力,老鼠是猪,狗是男孩。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.
每一代人的工作是质疑父母的信仰,探索可能性,并适应上一代人的价值观体系,以适应新时代。
I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience.
我很兴奋我可以成为一个理想主义者,我可以像我这样的年纪,对司法系统充满希望的勤奋工作的人,一个像观众一样失望的人。
So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.
我们很多人都希望民事制度可以成为一些妇女的另一种选择,因为在那里,负担要轻一些,而且案件可能更容易证明。
Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
除非我们堵住每一个漏洞,否则软钱会找到出路,渗入政治体系并腐蚀它。
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
所以历史的记录是绝对清晰的。到目前为止,我们发现,没有其他方法可以改善普通民众的生活,因为他们可以与自由企业制度所释放的生产活动相媲美。
The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
志愿服务体系是分裂的。它让一个慈善机构与其他慈善机构争夺慈善资金。