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理想主义
Idealism
Our ideals are our better selves.
我们的理想是更好的自己。
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
理想主义的敌人是狂热。
Ideal – Many ideals deteriorate into idols.
理想——许多理想退化为偶像。
We must lose our romanticism without losing our idealism.
我们必须在不丧失理想主义的情况下丧失浪漫主义。
Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.
理想是存在的，其余的只是暂时的中断。
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
理想主义是思想的暴君，正如政治是意志的暴君。
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
理想主义是好的，但当它接近现实时，成本变得令人望而却步。
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
理想主义，唉，不能保护一个人免受无知，教条主义和愚蠢。
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
理想主义是政治绅士们披在权力意志上的高贵长袍。
My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.
我的父母都是很棒的人，他们给我灌输了一种理想主义，我很感激。
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
如果一个年轻人有任何理想主义，最强烈的时候就是他大学毕业的时候。
Let us not assume, just because we have been cockeyed idealists, that it is cockeyed to be an idealist.
让我们不要仅仅因为我们是盲目的理想主义者，就认为做一个理想主义者是盲目的。
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An idealist is a man who looks at a rose, and thinks, because it smells sweet, it will make better soup than a cabbage.
理想主义者是这样的人:他看着一朵玫瑰，心想，因为它闻起来很香，所以它做的汤比卷心菜更好喝。
We lose most of our ideals not because we find them to be mistaken, but because we find if difficult to abide by them.
我们失去大多数理想，不是因为我们发现它们是错误的，而是因为我们发现很难遵守它们。
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
青年天生的理想主义是一种理想主义，唉，对于这种理想主义，我们并不总是能提供我们应该提供的那么多出口。
It is terrible to witness a loss of idealism in others, to see the soul, as it were, departing, and the body left an empty husk.
看到别人失去理想主义，看到灵魂可以说是离开了，而身体只剩下一个空壳，这是可怕的。
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
也许女人总是比男人更接近现实:这似乎是对被剥夺理想主义的一种公正的补偿。
He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse.
他冷酷无情只是因为他的理想。不幸的是他没有成功。事情失败了，失去控制，控制了他。理想主义是他唯一的借口，也是一个很好的借口。