A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
机构
Institutions
A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
骆驼是由委员会设计的马。
Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
人可能会死，但自由制度的结构仍未动摇。
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
整个文明史充满了信条和制度，这些信条和制度最初是无价的，后来却致命。
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
几乎所有的机构拥有的艺术品都比它们所能展示的多得多，其中很多都揭示了它的时效性、天才性或纯粹的怪异。
I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.
我认识到，教学和研究机构在很大程度上依赖于活跃的科学家参与管理职能。
The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.
欧盟应该专注于适应全球化和全球竞争力，而不是在布鲁塞尔建立更强大的中央机构。
Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.
战争不是上帝的行为。它们是由人类造成的，由人为的制度，由人类组织社会的方式造成的。人创造了什么，就能改变什么。
The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.
一种语言在机构中所占的特殊地位是不可否认的，但还有很多话要说——比较往往会揭示出不同之处。
It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
这不仅是因为个人对领导人的诚信失去了信心，还因为他们不再相信社会上最强大的机构在为他们的利益行事。
I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual perspective. To sidestep any biases I might have, I use the objective lens of the stock market to discover which policies actually delivered prosperity to emerging markets.
我出生在牙买加，但在著名的第一世界学府接受教育，现在在那里工作，所以我相信我有一个独特的、双重的视角。为了避免我可能存在的任何偏见，我利用股市的客观视角，来发现哪些政策实际上给新兴市场带来了繁荣。