A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
放弃
Abandon
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
自由主义观点的本质不在于人们持有什么样的观点，而在于人们如何持有这些观点:人们不是武断地持有这些观点，而是试探性地持有这些观点，并意识到新的证据随时可能导致人们抛弃这些观点。
Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about.
许多人设想了从未在现实中出现过或知道存在过的共和国和君主国;因为我们所行的与所当行的相距甚远，那弃绝已经行的，只取应该行的，反倒要成就。
Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.
底特律是一个非常引人注目的城市。这经历了一段非常艰难的时期。这里经历了很多痛苦，这座城市也遭受了身体上的痛苦。你可以在某些社区看到它，市中心的一些建筑已经被废弃。
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
作为个人和国家，我们现在正遭受着社会自恋的折磨。我们祖先深爱的回声，原始美洲，已经被遗弃了。我们爱上了自己的形象，爱上了自己创造的形象，而这些形象原来就是我们自己的形象。
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
乐观主义的本质是不考虑现在，而是别人已经放弃的灵感、活力和希望的源泉;它能使一个人昂首挺胸，为自己争取未来，而不把未来拱手让给敌人。
I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.
我不想逃跑，也不想放弃那些在森林里没有任何保护的农民们的战斗。他们有神圣不可侵犯的权利，渴望在土地上过上更美好的生活，在那里他们可以有尊严地生活和工作，同时尊重环境。
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.
死就像人的眼睛被挖出来，再也看不见任何东西。也许这就像被关在地窖里。一个被所有人抛弃。他们砰的一声关上门就走了。人们什么也看不见，只注意到腐烂的潮湿气味。
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.
当民选官员抛弃我们的环境并破坏我们的自然资源时，公共卫生就受到了威胁。我知道为我们的孩子提供一个干净的环境的重要性;我参加过不止一个孩子的葬礼，他死于哮喘发作。
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
在西方，占据着这个国家的部落非常繁荣，这鼓励了他们早期文明的希望。在很大程度上，他们放弃了狩猎的状态，把注意力转向了农业。
I am concerned about the adverse economic impact on the New London area, the abandonment of a huge installation of facilities and, less quantitatively, a loss of some of the proud submariners' heritage of our historic association with service and training at New London.
我对新伦敦地区的不利经济影响感到关切，对大量设施的放弃，以及在数量上少一些的，对我们与新伦敦服务和训练的历史性联系的一些自豪的潜艇员遗产的丧失。
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
总有一天，科学的头脑中会涌现出一种机器或一种力量，它的潜力是那么可怕，那么绝对可怕，甚至连敢于用酷刑和死亡来制造酷刑和死亡的战士，也会感到震惊，从而永远放弃战争。
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.
在希斯的案例中，争论的焦点是，这个病态的社会，我们称之为西方文明，在其极端情况下，是否还能培养出这样一个人，他对西方文明的信心是如此之大，以至于他会自愿放弃人们认为好的东西，包括生命，来捍卫它。
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Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.
生活、不幸、孤独、遗弃、贫穷，都是有英雄的战场;无名英雄，有时比显赫的英雄更伟大。
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
通往积极的道路上布满了胆小者丢弃的汽车。
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
我永远不会写现实主义散文。我不喜欢那些试图以诗歌风格写作的人，但在他们的书中，他们放弃了这种风格，转而追求现实主义，像醉汉一样在超现实与真实之间来回穿梭。
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
所有人类社会都经历过这样一种潮流，在这种潮流中，它们要么暂时采用很少使用的做法，要么放弃大量使用的做法。
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
一件艺术品永远不会完成。它只是被遗弃了。
Love from the abandoned heart of a nonexistent dog.
从一个不存在的狗的被遗弃的心的爱。