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人类
Human
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
也许是时候停止称其为“环保主义者”的观点了,就好像它是人类活动主流之外的一种游说努力,而开始称其为现实世界的观点。
As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general.
由于这些犹豫和这种革新的含糊其辞,人权委员会本身从一开始就对其作用和一般职能表示怀疑。
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
除非全体一致,否则人类的动物是靠不住的。任何种族、任何信仰、任何国籍的全体人民的思想和行动,都将始终指向正确的方向。
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.
众所周知,时间有时像鸟一样飞,有时像虫一样爬,但当人们不注意时间是过得快还是慢时,他们通常会特别高兴。
I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
我将努力不为给仇恨和激情的火焰添上任何燃料而感到内疚,如果继续助长仇恨和激情,欧洲的人类良知之战所留下的一切将被烧毁。
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
国际主义是一种社会和政治理论,是关于人类社会应该如何组织的特定概念,特别是关于各国应该如何组织相互关系的概念。
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
但是,当人类的自由引起了开明人士的注意,并得到了所有文明国家慷慨大方的感情时,我们难道不能问问这种自由是否得到了正确的理解吗?
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
玫瑰是大地和天空中无数复杂活动的有形产物,同样,一件艺术品也是人类头脑中奇怪活动的产物。
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
在每个人的生活中,总有那么一段时间,我们内心的火焰熄灭了。然后,它会因为与另一个人的相遇而燃烧起来。我们都应该感谢那些重新点燃内在精神的人。
Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.
作为唯一的非黑人是一种独特的经历。几周后,你就意识不到肤色的差异了。你看到颜色了;你不是瞎子,但没关系。你首先看到的是人。
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
白人的血和骨头孕育了这个青铜种族,并在某种程度上给它留下了品质、倾向和能力,比如人类动物最高等级的遗传。
In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.
在这方面,教会支持和赞成今天为寻求充分发展所有人的个性、促进他们的基本权利、尊严和自由所作的一切努力。
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
对于两个人的灵魂来说,有什么比在无言的、无法言说的回忆中感到他们是连在一起的——彼此加强——彼此在一起更伟大的事情呢?
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
如果你必须用一个词来说明人类没有实现、也永远不会实现其全部潜力的原因,那么这个词就是“会议”。
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
一个人只有受到教育才能达到他的全部高度。
People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.
人和松鼠是非常不同的。大多数人不会这么认为。但我发现有一种情况它们非常相似。那就是:当我开着车向他们驶来的时候。然后它们就很难区分了——尤其是如果人类是多毛的。
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
一旦人们认识到,即使是距离最近的人之间也会有无限的距离,如果他们能成功地喜欢上彼此之间的距离,使彼此能在天空中看到对方,那么,即使是在最接近的人之间,也会有无限的距离。