A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
腐败
Corruption
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
我们的国家现在走的道路是如此稳定，以致于表明它将走哪条路走向毁灭，也就是说:首先通过巩固权力，然后是腐败，来显示其必然的后果。
To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
对于那些被告知我抛弃了他们的支持者，这是不真实的。我抛弃了贪婪、腐败和妥协，而不是你，也不是支撑我的艺术天赋和能力。
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。
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?
If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.
如果像自然的那样，你把注意力集中在腐败和那些受到威胁的试图阻止变革的机构上——尽管它们并不真正知道自己试图阻止什么——那么你就会变得悲观。
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。
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
大学的微妙之处在于，它的性格是复杂的，它悬在永恒世界的地位与我们想象的辉煌世界之间，这个世界充满了腐败、邪恶和残酷。
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。
I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.
我认为我们需要从费城开始，确保我们在费城进行一些选举改革。事实上，最近的一次选举被一位联邦法官否决了，原因是费城的选举过程存在腐败。
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
与事实的粗暴接触很快就把我的幻想和梦想赶跑了，取而代之的是社会的恐怖、腐败、邪恶和虚伪。
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。
The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
反腐败斗争从来就不是一件容易的事情。过去没有，将来也不会有。它对我们自己、我们的家人、我们的朋友，尤其是我们的孩子造成了伤害。最后，我相信，就像我的情况一样，我们所付出的代价值得我们保持尊严。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.
我们必须同消极作斗争，特别是同官僚主义、腐败和浪费作斗争。
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。
I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
当腐败指数改善时，我肯定会很高兴。
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
所有的机构都容易腐败和其成员的恶习。
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
权力不会腐败。恐惧导致腐败……也许是害怕失去权力。