A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
独立
Independence
Independence came at a high price: a debt with a payment schedule of hurt and regret.
独立是要付出高昂代价的:一笔带着伤痛和遗憾的还款计划的债务。
For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.
对我来说，与金钱有关的最重要的事情一直是独立——只是最大的。
I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.
我想强调，科索沃的独立应该而且将得到承认。
I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.
我将不久于人世，但我坚信，我的国家将获得独立。
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
民族是政治独立的奇迹;种族是物理类比的原则。
I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.
我相信，在我仍然积极参与政治的时候，格陵兰将获得独立。
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
男人说他们喜欢女人的独立，但他们不会浪费一秒钟一砖一瓦地毁掉它。
We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
我们完全致力于结束分裂，并为统一和独立创造条件。
Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.
宣布独立是我所做过的最痛苦的决定。因为我不想这么做。
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
你能给孩子最好的礼物是责任的根源和独立的翅膀。
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
独立不是一时兴起或雄心壮志。这是我们民族生存的必要条件。
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
我们今天的年轻人被教导要寻找安全感，而不是独立、精力和进取心。
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
人生具有悲剧性的讽刺意味的是，我们常常在追求成功或经济独立的主要原因过去之后才获得成功或经济独立。
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against politica.
集体意见对个人独立的合法干涉是有限度的，找到这种限度并保持它不受侵犯，就像保护人们不受政治侵害一样，对人类事务的良好状态也是必不可少的。
Injustice in the end produces independence.
不公正最终会产生独立。
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
这句谚语警告说:“你不应该恩将仇报。”“但是，如果它阻止你养活自己，也许你应该这样做。
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
独立对待一种所有说本国话的人都必须采用的建构语言的态度确实是一个很大的优势，因为它往往使人把自己看作是语言的主人，而不是语言的顺从的仆人。