A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
一代又一代
Generations
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?
We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.
我们生活在一个一次性的社会。我们扔掉了很多东西。但它并非凭空而来。它来自地球，也来自子孙后代的生活。
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.
经历过第二次世界大战的一代人正在消失。战后一代把欧洲的伟大成就——自由、和平与繁荣——视为理所当然。
Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
也许你是“酷”的一代，如果酷意味着保持冷静的能力，用你的头脑服务于热情地相信的目标，那么它有我的钦佩。
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。
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
人类的本性必须比现在或未来许多代人更接近完美，才能排除这种控制偏见、自私、野心和不公。
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。
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
没有什么比音乐更能把两代人分开了。当一个孩子八九岁的时候，他对自己的音乐产生了一种热情，这种热情甚至超过了他对拖延症和古怪衣服的热情。
I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.
我要走出去，让所有人聚在一起，说我认为我们应该为子孙后代保护好这一点。现在，让我们开始工作，在这片土地上走走，谈谈冲突，让每个人都参与进来。
I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.
我想向世界，也向自己，展示我能做什么。我出生在费城灵魂的世界，但我精通多种音乐语言，我喜欢和不同时代的人一起工作。
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。
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。
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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。
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。
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 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。
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。
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。