A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
公民身份
Citizenship
The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
好公民的标准是对国家的忠诚。
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
公民就是为国家服务。
Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
因此，一个人应该同时谈论国籍和更广泛的欧洲国籍。
Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.
我不知道，我可能已经失去了公民身份，但我不认为你会失去公民身份。
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
没有二等公民这回事。这就像告诉我你可能有点怀孕了。
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
选举权是公民的一项共同权利。妇女有选举权。从逻辑上讲，它是无法转义的。
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
保守派忘记了公民身份不仅仅是对移民的一种保留。进步人士忘记了这不仅仅是一套权利。
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
波希米亚不过是一个你不住的小地方。如果你想在那里获得公民身份，朝廷和随从们立刻把王室的档案和财宝打包，搬到山那边去。
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
每一个好公民都把自己国家的荣誉作为自己的荣誉，不仅珍惜，而且神圣。他愿意冒着生命的危险去保护它，并且意识到他在给予保护的同时也得到了保护。
Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.
今天关于公民身份的讨论常常是空洞无物的。这个词在日常会话中有一种略微过时的感觉。当它在国家政治中被唤起时，通常伴随着文化战争迫击炮轰鸣而来。
Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.
为什么公民身份应该是一个出生问题?那些想要终止出生公民权的人所持的前提是，有些人应该享有，有些人不应该——这种身份不应该自动被授予。坦白地说，这是一个值得考虑的前提。