A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
公民
Citizens
My fellow citizens, the state of our city is strong.
同胞们，我们的城市是强大的。
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
这座城市之所以如此，是因为我们的公民就是他们。
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
坏官员是由不投票的好公民选出来的。
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
按照目前的情况，我们这些出生就有幸成为公民的人不必做太多事情。对我们的要求很少。
If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.
如果没有对公民生命的威胁，我们的策略将是不干预或阻碍抗议成员自由表达他们的意愿。
We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.
我们必须建立一个能够满足公民需求的国家，我们需要那些因为国家为公民服务而对国家感到忠诚的公民。
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
雅典的法律规定，阵亡公民的葬礼应由公众出资，并以最高尚的方式进行。
We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
我们有责任向新奥尔良的洪水灾民如实回答为什么会发生这样的事件，并向我们的公民保证这样的悲剧不会再次发生。
As society changes, laws have to change to protect citizens along the way. Sometimes you have to try new and different and creative ways to solve problems. You have to take some risks.
随着社会的变化，法律也必须随之改变以保护公民。有时你必须尝试新的、不同的和创造性的方法来解决问题。你必须承担一些风险。
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.
作为公民，我们必须更有思想、更有教育、更有见识。我打开电视，看到这些成年人互相大喊大叫，我想，如果我们不恢复我们的礼貌，我们就有麻烦了。
And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.
如果新奥尔良市民听说我们真的打算让这个地方重新变得安全——不管堤坝是否坚固——那么我认为重建进程将真正成形。
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
这不是人与人之间的竞争。全地最卑微的国民，若披著公义的兵器，比一切犯罪的军兵更强。我来到你们面前，是为了捍卫一项和自由一样神圣的事业——人类的事业。
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The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.
斯德哥尔摩成千上万市民的经济行为中微妙而复杂的竞争与合作模式对经济学家提出了一个挑战，这个挑战可能与物理学家和化学家的挑战一样复杂。