A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
犯罪
Crime
In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.
事实上,如果你有犯罪行为,你去催眠,你不能作证。因为没有办法检验什么是真实的,什么是事实,什么是幻想。
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
一切都极其文雅;而且这里几乎和相邻宫殿的金色沙龙里一样多的休息时间。无论如何,如果罪恶有那么多,罪恶就会那么少。
We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.
我们不能仅仅因为一个人认为他的行为是合理的,是必要的,以防止一些可察觉的伤害,就轻易地让一个严重犯罪的行凶者逍遥法外。
And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.
这是一种犯罪,因为历史上伟大的戏剧,可以追溯到古希腊,是每个人的遗产的一部分。就像在音乐中,贝多芬或莫扎特,那是每个人的遗产。
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
犯罪是人类的一个事实,仅仅是这个物种的一个事实,但它首先是秘密的一面,无法渗透和隐藏。犯罪是隐藏的,迄今为止,最可怕的事情是那些我们逃避不了的事情。
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
智慧是治疗人类痛苦、犯罪和所有其他不幸的唯一良药。教一个人读书写字,你就把智慧宝盒的大钥匙交给了他。但打开盒子是另一回事。
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
几个世纪以来,死刑常常伴随着野蛮的改良,一直试图遏制犯罪;然而,犯罪依然存在。为什么?因为人的本能在交战,并不像法律所宣称的那样,是处于平衡状态的恒常力量。
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
自然,这是一种可怕、卑鄙的罪行,就像在慕尼黑一样,人们被当作人质,被杀害。但探究这些责任人的动机,表明他们也是有家庭的个体,有自己的故事,并不能成为他们所做事情的借口。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
青春是美好的。把钱浪费在孩子身上真是罪过。
I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
我认为回顾过去是有帮助的,尤其是当你想解决犯罪问题的时候。
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
和平是文明的美德。战争是它的罪行。
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
还有比焚书更严重的罪行。其中之一就是不读。
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
犯罪的世界是真实、纯洁、自发事件的最后避难所。
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
从受欢迎的那一刻起,它就是一种犯罪;这只是一种美德,无论人们愿意与否。