A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自由
Liberty
Liberty is worth paying for.
自由是值得付出代价的。
Liberation is not deliverance.
解放不是解脱。
Too much liberty corrupts us all.
太多的自由会腐蚀我们所有人。
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
和平是平静中的自由。
When liberty returns, I will return.
当自由回来时,我也会回来。
Where liberty is, there is my country.
哪里有自由,哪里就有我的国家。
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
自由有限制,但没有边界。
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
狼的自由等于羊羔的死亡。
Personal liberty is not personal license.
个人自由不是个人许可。
Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!
给我自由,否则给我一个麦麸松饼!
Liberty means more to me than life itself.
对我来说,自由比生命本身更重要。
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
事实是人们厌倦了自由。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
世界上最大的权利就是犯错的权利。
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
人的自由完全在于他遵守自然法则,因为他自己承认这些法则,而不是因为这些法则是由任何外来意志强加给他的,无论是人类的还是神圣的,集体的还是个人的。
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
没有自由的生活就像没有灵魂的躯体。
This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.
当没有人为了得到这种自由而死的时候,这种自由就会变得很容易。
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
要使自己的自由得到保障,就连敌人也必须保护自己不受压迫;因为如果他违反了这一义务,他就为自己树立了一个先例。
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
对我们这一代人来说,生命是核的生存,自由是人权,追求幸福是一个其资源用于滋养其居民的物质和精神的星球。