A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
机构
Institution
The world is a penal institution.
世界是一个刑罚制度。
The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
棚屋的好客只受到战争制度的限制。
I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.
我从来没有在精神病院呆过很长时间。我在精神病区。
I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.
我想在任何教育机构里，一个人都不可能成为一个受过教育的人。
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
一个机构越理性，它就越不会因为向他人做出让步而受到损害。
I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
我认为让家长们了解机构的文化是很有用的。
I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.
我喜欢有机会穿一些特别的衣服，去一些伟大的文化机构参加一个精彩的活动。
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
民事结合不如婚姻。婚姻是一种神圣而有价值的制度，应该得到平等的保护。
Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense.
从历史上看，皇室家族代表着一种制度。该机构建立在遗产的基础上，在这个意义上是永恒的。
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
家庭问题现在使我们的社会产生了如此深刻的分歧，对立的两方甚至无法就他们所争论的制度的定义达成一致意见。
We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
我们吃动物是因为它们味道好。如果可以的话，穿皮草有什么不好?作为一个社会，我们需要认真思考我们制度化的动物使用。
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.
我必须摆脱任何关于地狱或来世的想法。这就是我的动力，我的动力。所以现在我对教会的制度只有蔑视。
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So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.
现在很少有人投票，我认为部分原因是他们觉得这个机构对他们没有任何意义。如果你想让他们投票，给他们机会去做一些除了投票以外的事情，去帮助别人。
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
我钦佩一些神父和修女，他们独自去做上帝的工作，在贫民区提供帮助，但就教会的制度而言，我认为这是卑鄙的。
In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
在皈依过程中，你并不主要依附于一种秩序、一种制度、一种运动、一套信仰或一套行动准则——你主要依附于一个人，其次是依附于这些东西。
We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.
如果我们必须处理陌生人的行为，我们不可能赚那么多钱。现在，任何降低我们经济生产力的人，都得走人。我们给他们留了个地方，精神病院。这是最主要的，他们会让事情慢下来。
We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other.
我们可以谈论制度，但最终律师是一个既与公众接触又了解司法制度的群体。
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
新闻机构的根本目的是教育和提供信息，甚至有人可能会说，是提高新闻水平。但在商业压力下，新闻机构的整个理念或许已经转变为另一种目的，那就是转移人们的注意力和娱乐。