A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人类
Mankind
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
如果除一人之外的所有人都持同一种意见,那么人类就没有理由压制那个人,正如他如果有权力,也没有理由压制人类一样。
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
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
让每个人都认为自己是上帝的行为,他的思想是上帝的思想,他的生命是上帝的气息;各人要凭大能的意念和大能的行为,试验自己在天上的作为。
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
一切都会好起来的——你知道什么时候吗?当人们,仅仅是人们,不再认为联合国是毕加索的一个奇怪的抽象概念,而是把它看作是他们自己画的一幅画。
Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.
人们到国外去欣赏高山、大海的汹涌澎湃、河流的汹涌澎湃、海洋的罗盘和星星的运行轨迹,然后就从那里经过了。
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
正直的人,通过他们的存在,重新点燃了这样的信念:作为一个民族,我们可以生活在道德败坏的水平之上。我们需要这种信念;愤世嫉俗的社会是腐败的社会。
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
我担心,在人类的大众中,有太多的傻瓜和恶棍;从他们的人数来看,虽然他们一点也不值得尊敬,但在一定程度上必须受到尊敬。
If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
如果一个人在全人类中找到了一个朋友,那么他就找到了比任何财富都珍贵的东西,因为世界上没有什么东西比真正的朋友更珍贵。
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
我们是谁?我们发现自己生活在一颗不起眼的行星上,这颗平凡的恒星迷失在一个星系中,隐藏在宇宙某个被遗忘的角落里,那里的星系比人类多得多。
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
无论我做什么或说什么,我都没有权利在一个人的眼里贬低他。重要的不是我对他的看法;这是他对自己的看法。破坏一个人的自尊是一种罪过。
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
事实上,每一个思想家,每一个哲学家,当他因为实际的需要而被迫放弃他片面的知识工作的时候,就立即回到人类的一般观点上来。
Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
的确,科学家是幸福的,他不仅拥有我列举的快乐,而且还赢得了其他科学家和人类的认可,这些认可最终得益于他的努力。
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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。
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
人类的神圣权利不能在古老的羊皮纸卷或发霉的记录中翻找。它们就像一束阳光一样,由神亲自书写在人类本性的全集里;而且永远无法抹去。
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
对人类的正确研究是人与神的关系。
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
任何人的死亡都使我渺小,因为我与人类息息相关;因此,永远不要派人去打听丧钟为谁而鸣;它为你收费。
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
我认为你可以把艺术,无论优劣,留给人类的良知去决定。
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
你当晓得自己,不要以为神鉴察。真正研究人类的是人。