A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
一代又一代
Generations
I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.
我认为音乐影响了时尚，而且已经影响了几代人。
Future generations will judge us not by what we say, but what we do.
后代评判我们，不是看我们说什么，而是看我们做什么。
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
下一代人将从贫困中学会平等，从苦难中学会爱。
I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
我不知道有几代人不知道电影的起源。
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
这是年轻人能为老年人做的一切，让他们震惊，让他们跟上时代。
Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.
几代人思考也意味着让我们的年轻人有一个体面的生活水平。
It takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!
它需要三代人的辛勤劳动，三代人的牺牲才能改正错误!
I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
我知道我永远也赶不上我父亲的小提琴手，而且家里已经有四代杰出的大提琴家了。
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
应该使每一代人都承担起自己的战争负担，而不是以牺牲其他几代人的利益为代价进行战争。
It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.
能成为一座通向过去、团结几代人的桥梁是一种美妙的感觉。棒球运动就是这样，而我只是其中的一部分。
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
这是由我们来实现留给我们的遗产，并留下一个值得我们的孩子和后代的遗产。
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
每一代人都有责任按现状偿还自己的债务。这一原则如果付诸实施，将拯救世界上一半的战争。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
如果我们的子孙后代更多地怀着感激而不是悲伤来铭记我们，我们就必须实现的不仅仅是科技的奇迹。我们还必须让他们看到这个世界是如何被创造出来的，而不仅仅是我们完成它时的样子。
The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
这场运动是由妇女们发起的，她们在很大程度上没有自己的钱，在组织方面也完全没有经验，她们在大约两代人的时间里就赢得了这场斗争，这一事实往往使故事具有戏剧性，而且总是值得保存下来。
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
教育可以抵消做错事的自然倾向，但世代相传的必然要求不断更新这种知识的基础。
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
我是第一代看电视的人。电视使人们接触新闻、信息、知识和娱乐。有多糟糕?
But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
但是，这些现实很快就会显现出来。虽然我当然不是要你闭眼不看前几代人的经历，但我想建议你不要过早地照搬，不要抵制现实需要的压力。
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
易洛魁人的社会鼓励领导者在做影响人民的决定时，要记住过去的七代人，并考虑未来的七代人。