A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人类
Human
When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.
当你扮演一名医生时,你必须看起来你能做到,但实际上你并没有去做。这不像你学习如何切开一个人然后去做手术。你必须想到一个人,而不是去想象那是什么样子。
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
人类的成长是一个独特的社会关系问题,而不是生物学问题。我们从家庭内部的联系中学到的东西取代了动物行为的本能;这就提出了一个问题,这些联系有多好?
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
从前,有一位王后,她有一个非常丑、非常畸形的儿子。不过,他出生时的一位仙女说,尽管如此,他还是会非常和蔼可亲的,因为他有非常好的判断力。
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
大道废,有仁义;智慧出,有大伪;六亲不和,有孝慈;国家昏乱,有忠臣。
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
凡从创世以来,生为人,死为死的,不是在天上,就是在地狱,这都是从上面所说的,所表明的事来的,也就是说,天堂和地狱都是从人来的。
When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.
说到野生动物,我们必须努力保护那些我们能保护它们的地方。很明显,有些物种如果不能完全消失,就必须由人类来照顾。
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
因为人文主义也呼唤人的为人。它寻求把人类本性的普遍品质从血、土和阶级的狭隘限制中解放出来,并创造一种共同的语言和文化,在这种语言和文化中,人们可以实现他们共同的人性。
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
首先,对我来说,真理和力量是对立的,对立的,几乎永远无法解决。其实我可以定义,可以简化人类社会的历史,人类社会的进化,就像权力和自由之间的竞争。
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
在所有的说谎者中,最傲慢的是传记作家:这些人会让我们相信,在调查了几个装满信件、日记、银行对账单和照片的盒子之后,他们可以像录音天使一样,讲述另一个人生活的全部真相。
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
群众的每一步每一个动作,即使在所谓开明的时代,对未来也同样是盲目的;国家偶然发现了制度,这确实是人类行为的结果,但不是人类设计的结果。
Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.
许多技术正在以最快的速度向前发展,用机器取代工厂和办公室里的工人,让股东变得更富有,让工人变得更贫穷,这些技术确实倾向于加剧财富分配方面现有的不平等。
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
我们正处在人类历史的开端。我们努力解决问题并不是没有道理的。但在未来还有数万年。我们的责任是尽我们所能,学习我们所能,改进解决方案,并把它们传递下去。
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
有两件事是无限的:宇宙和人类的愚蠢;我对宇宙也不是很确定。
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
洛克从这种兽性的观点,即人类的心灵只由感觉确定性、快乐和痛苦组成,发展出一种同样兽性的国家理论。人类最初存在于完全自由的自然状态中。
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
荒野不是奢侈品,而是人类精神的必需品。
I became a human placebo.
我成了人类的安慰剂。
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
人非圣贤,孰能无过;宽恕的,是神。
Write about the experiences that made you feel human. And whatever happens, please do continue to live and write.
写下那些让你觉得自己是人类的经历。无论发生什么,请继续生活和写作。