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腐败
Corruption
It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
有趣的是，这些犯罪和政治腐败的主题总是相关的。
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
当我看到腐败的时候，我不得不自己去寻找真相。我无法忍受这种虚伪。
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
在一个仍然存在的社会中，腐败的第一个迹象是，目的证明手段是正当的。
All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
世界上所有的问题——童工、腐败——都是一种精神疾病的症状:缺乏同情心。
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
我曾经因为腐败而看不起这个世界，但现在我却因为腐败的绝对壮丽而崇拜它。
Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
腐败有其自身的动机，必须深入研究这一现象，消除腐败存在的基础。
I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
我有一种非常坚定的倾向，那就是养育自己，监督自己成为自己想成为的人。我尽量减少腐败。
I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.
我认为，当金钱开始腐蚀新闻业时，它破坏了新闻业，破坏了产品的信誉，你最终不会成功。
As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.
作为一名专栏作家，我意识到，不管我揭露了多少腐败，半数读者都会把它挡在门外，尽管他们可能会在这个过程中感到一阵喜悦。
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
在某种程度上，数字的积累总是会增加道德败坏，以及由此产生的各种恶习对健康的影响是众所周知的。
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
没有人能保证我们不会失败或腐败;看看这个世界正在发生什么，人性的愚蠢和人性的失败。
Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?
圣十字架的筵席，不是人人都觉得自己里面有腐败，足以驱使自己去干最大的恶事，并且永远毁灭自己的灵魂吗?
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
我为我的国家的自由而哭泣，当我看到在这个成功的试验的早期，腐败已被归咎于许多众议院议员，人民的权利已被用来换取执政的承诺。
Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?
不，人们对自己的罪过远没有沉思默想，反而鄙视这种做法，甚至还嘲笑它。我们该怎么办呢?我们是否应该一直关注我们的腐败?
Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.
听着，我们知道当我们占多数的时候我们搞砸了。我们爱上了权力。我们花了太多钱，特别是专项拨款。我们经营这个地方的时候腐败太严重了。我们是有罪的。这就是我们失败的原因。
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
切鸡来预测未来，如果诚实地做，并且尽可能少地解释，是一种随机化。但鸡内脏很难读懂，也会让人联想到想象力或腐败。
The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.
现实是，要求公众为政治活动提供资金一事无成。候选人继续通过其他渠道寻求利益集团的支持，包括资金和实物支持，腐败问题比比皆是。
I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.
我想让国家摆脱腐败，恢复我们的经济环境。