A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
选举
Elections
Elections are rarely perfect.
选举很少是完美的。
I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
我从不投票给任何人。我总是投反对票。
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
每年的选举一结束，奴隶制就开始了。
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
如果投票改变了什么，他们会把它定为非法。
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
见鬼，我从来不投票给任何人，我总是投反对票。
A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.
三年的饮食包括橡胶鸡和偶尔的乌鸦。
Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
不幸的是，中期选举可能非常无聊。
Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.
在选举中，理想主义输给了实用主义。
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
奴隶主的自由选举并不废除奴隶主或奴隶。
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
我们的选举是免费的，最终我们要付出代价。
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
选举只不过是预先拍卖赃物。
The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.
自由选举的问题在于，你永远不知道谁会赢。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
政治承诺很像婚姻誓言。它们是在候选人和选民之间的关系刚开始时做出来的，但很快就被遗忘了。
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
当我们能够选出和一些已经任职的男性一样无能的女性担任公职时，我将感到平等已经到来。
A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation.
一个政治家只盼望下一次选举。一位政治家对下一代充满期待。
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
人们说谎最多的时候是打猎之后、战争期间或选举之前。
Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
组织自由公正的选举比选举结果本身更重要。
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.
那些远离选举的人认为一票不会有什么好处:认为一票不会有什么坏处，这只是多了一步。