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道德
Moral
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
我认为我们对孩子有一种道德上的责任，可以很容易地总结为:第一，保护他们免受伤害。
In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
在所有优秀的西部片中，好人总是有点可疑，因为他必须做出道德判断。
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
在社会事务中，毫无意义的习俗不仅是礼仪的蜜蜂蜇人之痛，也是道德秩序的毒蛇咬人之痛。
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
科学本身没有道德维度。但它确实寻求建立真理。道德就是建立在这个真理之上的。
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
出于道德目的，我在自然界中看不到任何痕迹。那是一件完全由人工制造的物品，非常值得我们赞赏。
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
一个被令人窒息的法律网络扼杀的社会，在道德混乱中寻求解脱，不太可能快乐或稳定。
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
法律很容易受到知识分子或道德风尚的影响，然后它将其确认为我们最基本概念的命令。
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
既然什么是道德就是一个有智慧的人的自由行为，那么在强迫之下所做的行为怎么可能有道德成分呢?
If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.
如果我们现在让深夜脱口秀主持人承担与政客或牧师同样的道德责任，我就出局了。我走了。
For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
对于成千上万的男人和女人来说，教堂是灵魂的医院，思想的学校和道德观念的安全储藏所。
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
获得博士学位的想法逐渐变成了一场伟大的道德斗争，而道德斗争对我具有极大的吸引力。
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
如果时间就是金钱，那么节约时间似乎是合乎道德的，尤其是节省自己的时间，而为他人着想可以为这种节俭开脱。一个是直接的。
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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
也许没有一种现象比道德上的愤怒包含更多的破坏性情感，道德上的愤怒允许嫉妒，或者在美德的伪装下表现出来。
If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
如果我们不相信道德的绝对，然后我们陷入文化和政治的辩论，我们怎么能赢?
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
所有的道德法则都只是说明某种行为会产生好的效果。
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
我的父母抚养我长大，让我相信你有道义上的责任去拯救世界。
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
如果诗人追求道德目标，他的诗歌力量就会减弱。
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
作为一个普遍的事实，可以肯定地说，任何给人留下道德印象的画面都是一幅糟糕的画面。