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一代又一代
Generations
It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
令人惊讶的是，几代人很快就忽略了其他几代人。和我一起工作的年轻作曲家们说的第一件事就是他们想创作人们喜欢的音乐，而不是通过被观众拒绝来获得他们的证书。
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。
I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart.
我见过孤独的人，年纪渐长，却如天使般恒常，对他们所爱的人守信。看到他们在石板和十字架之间犹豫地移动，足以让你心碎。
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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。
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 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。
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。
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。
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。