A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
社区
Community
I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
我不是政治家。我只是想帮助减轻社区的痛苦，我想帮助人们看到彼此的社区。
I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.
我已经说过一千个光点，说过所有像星星一样散布在全国各地的社区组织，都在行善。
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
一个种族融合的社区是从第一个黑人家庭的入口到最后一个白人家庭的出口的按时间顺序排列的术语。
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
左派开始把常识——社区的传统智慧和风俗习惯——视为进步和启蒙的障碍。
My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.
我的世界是一所社区芭蕾舞学校，一个游行乐队，我的两个姐妹和我的女朋友。我在乐队里吹萨克斯，有点书呆子气。
When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
当一种语言在当下创造出一个共同体时，它只能通过一个介于现在和过去之间的共同体来实现。
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
因为孤立的动物利己主义是一种倾向于保护和改善物种的美德:在任何一种群体中，它都是一种破坏性的恶习。
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.
它从我背上滚下来。嘲笑没有任何意义——即使是来自那些你应该带着护膝的人，比如科学界。
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
每个社会都会受到应有的惩罚。同样真实的是，每个社区都得到了它所坚持的那种执法。
Well, ever since I was little, I knew that singing was what I wanted to do, and then I got into, you know, doing drama club and community theater.
嗯，从我很小的时候，我就知道唱歌是我想做的，然后我进入了，你知道，戏剧俱乐部和社区剧院。
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
社会正义的挑战是唤起一种社区意识，我们需要使我们的国家成为一个更美好的地方，正如我们使它成为一个更安全的地方一样。
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
为了在社会上树立良好的形象，有必要达到某种、某种程度上不确定的、传统的财富标准。
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Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.
阅读当地报纸的社论版。无论你的政治意识形态如何，它都能让你接触到不同的观点，可能会非常具有挑衅性，或许还能极大地激励你参与到社区中来。
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
人们在你背后说的是你在社会中的地位。
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
家庭农场和小型企业是我们社区的支柱。
When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
当所有的事情都说了，做了，任何社区真正的力量堡垒是在那些居住在那里的人的心里，思想和愿望。
Community is that place where the person you least want to live with always lives. And when that person moves away, someone else arises to take his or her place.
社区是你最不想与之生活在一起的人永远生活的地方。 当那个人离开时，另一个人就会出现代替他或她的位置。
I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
我强调自尊、自信和尊严，不是作为一种理想，而是作为对社区组织的真正考验。没有领导力的发展，社区组织就没有后劲。