A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人类
Mankind
However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.
然而,我们大家都坚定地相信,人类在其漫长的斗争和创造性历史中取得了人道主义和进步价值的胜利。
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
仅仅对新闻界来说,尽管滥用职权的情况错综复杂,但世界对理性和人道主义战胜错误和压迫所取得的一切胜利应负全责。
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
向世界展示长期经验的收获并不需要勇气,尽管它需要痛苦;但在人生的开端就告诉人类是一种勇敢的精神的勇敢努力。
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
我能想到的只有一种情况,那就是男性和女性都努力比平时读得更好。而是当他们坠入爱河,读情书的时候。
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.
广告公司的工作是热情的和立即的人。它处理人类的需求、欲望、梦想和希望。它的“产品”无法在装配线上生产出来。
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
书籍是伟大的天才留给人类的遗产,它作为礼物代代相传,传给尚未出生的人。
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
无论善恶,人是一种自由的创造精神。这就产生了我们所生活的奇怪世界,一个不断创造的世界,一个不断变化和不安全的世界。
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
货币是人类有史以来最糟糕的货币。它洗劫城市,把人们赶出家园,它教导并腐蚀最有价值的头脑,让他们做出卑劣的行为。
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
人类在逆境中生存有着悠久的经验和优良的传统。但我们现在面临着一项我们几乎没有经验的任务,那就是繁荣昌盛。
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
为原则而活,为某些改革的胜利而活,通过这些改革,全人类都将被提升到与一种理念结合起来,这也许毕竟是最神圣、最幸福的婚姻。
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
人的心是偶像崇拜和迷信的仓库;甚至如果一个人相信他自己的思想,他一定会抛弃上帝,在自己的头脑中铸造一些偶像。
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
我告诉人类,不要对上帝感到好奇。我是凡事察验的、却不察验神。我凡事听见看见神、却不明白神的意思。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
In every good man a God dwell.
凡有善人,就有神居住。
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
明智的人首先要做的事情之一,就是知道自己什么时候被打败了,然后立即停止战斗。
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it
一位哲学家说,宇宙中最伟大的目标是与逆境抗争的好人;然而还有一位更大的,就是前来救他的那良善人
What is meant by a "knowledge of the world" is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men.
所谓“世界的知识”,简单地说,就是认识人的弱点。
We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.
我们来了就走,上帝愿意,我们将带着全人类的和平与希望回来。
Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt
恐惧是良心对罪恶所付的税