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不公正

Injustice

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

当我们远离全球变暖,京都议定书,当我们不负责任地在向非洲艾滋病迈进的道路上行动迟缓,当我们不推进和实践我们自己的言论和标准时,我们发出了一个可怕的信息,那就是表里不一和伪善。

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

让我恼火的是,人们到处都在平淡地说,‘哦,我们的态度变了。我们不再讨厌这些人了。“但最奇怪的巧合是,他们并没有消除不公正;法律仍在制定之中。

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.

在任何情况下,只有少数人抗议长期存在的法律和习俗的不公正,但这并不能证明压迫的事实是不成立的,而许多人的满足,如果是真实的,只能证明他们的冷漠和更深的堕落。

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

一个人如果违反了良心告诉他是不公正的法律,并且心甘情愿地接受监禁的惩罚,以唤起社会对其不公正的良心,那么他实际上是在表达对法律的最高尊重。

Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.

选择罢工不是工人们轻易做出的决定,而且总是伴随着强烈的工作不公平感。失去一天的工资带来的影响是巨大的,尤其是对于那些已经处于预算最紧张的低收入工作的人来说。

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?

这里有哪个女人如此迷恋自己所受的压迫,以至于看不到自己的脚后跟印在另一个女人的脸上?什么样的女人的压迫条件对她来说已经变得珍贵和必要,就像一张门票,进入正义的怀抱,远离自我审视的寒风?

As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

黑夜不会一下子降临,压迫也不会一下子降临。在这两种情况下,当一切似乎都保持不变时,就会有一个黄昏。正是在这样的暮色中,我们所有人都必须意识到空气中的变化,无论多么轻微,以免我们不知不觉地成为黑暗的牺牲品。

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

你要知道人们会服从什么,你就会知道他们会受到多少不公正和错误的惩罚;这种情况将继续下去,直到有人用言语或拳头,或两者兼而有之加以抵抗。暴君的极限是由他们压迫的人的忍耐力决定的。

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