A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
历史
Historic
Get it out of your historic head.
把它从你的历史头脑中抹去。
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
我对留下自己的印记或具有历史意义没什么大不了的。
It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.
允许历史名城重塑未来是非常重要的。
People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.
必须提醒人们，工会在我们的经济中发挥了非常历史性的作用。
Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.
从根本上说，具有历史意义的、全面的、有大量参议员支持的立法更持久。
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
经过一个世纪的努力，经过一年的辩论，经过一次历史性的投票，医疗改革不再是一个没有兑现的承诺。这是国家的法律。
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
历史性变化和挑战。人类知识和机遇的突破。然而，对全球各地的大多数人来说，日常现实并没有改变。
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
一定存在这样一种可能:把社会学和案例史留给科学家们，让他们用童话中所有的光明魔力，在此时此地，了解人类状况的真相。
It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.
这并不是说要改造一个对颜色有不良品味的人的客厅。这是关于修复历史建筑，并向社区灌输自豪感，这可以通过设计新的公共空间和社交聚会场所来实现。
If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.
如果说在过去的几十年里，重大的历史事件把人们聚集在一起，使他们朝着集体行动的方向前进，那么，最近的双重趋势——更多的选择，但更少的安全——使年轻人从更个人的角度看待自己的生活。大事件集团化。小事件分裂。