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道德
Moral
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
现代的假物理哲学剥夺了人的一切道德属性,或者在估计他的起源和在被创造的世界中的地位时不考虑这些属性。
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
法律总是建立在道德观念的基础上,如果所有代表道德选择的法律都要根据正当程序条款被废除,法庭将会非常忙碌。
We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.
作为国会,我们有道义上的责任为这些受害者的家属伸张正义。此外,作为一个以法律为基础的社会,我们有责任确保罪犯不会逍遥法外。
The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
从理论上讲,不受限制地发展权力和对其他国家发动战争的权利是反社会的,而且是双重危险的,因为国家作为一个集体实体代表着低的道德和智力水平。
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
仅仅携带一把尺子在口袋里就应该被禁止,至少在道德上是这样的。统治者是新文盲的象征。统治者是一种新疾病的症状,我们的文明正在瓦解。
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
如果一个人认为一个人所做的一切都应该是正确和可靠的,即使是确定一个关税税率也必须是合乎道德的,那么他拒绝接受这一观点,认为这是一个处于权力地位的人所面临的最大危险。
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
最终,我们只有一个道德责任:在我们自己身上重新获得大面积的和平,越来越多的和平,并将其反映给他人。我们内心的和平越多,这个混乱的世界就会越和平。
Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.
因此,关于道德多数的争论不仅来自其观点,而且来自其名称——在许多人看来,这似乎意味着只有一套公共政策是道德的,而且只有一种多数可能是正确的。
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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。
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 perception of beauty is a moral test.
对美的感知是一种道德测试。
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。
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。
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。