A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
国家
Nation
And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.
在这里，有一项最令人发指的指控，即这个国家背负着不必要的开支，其唯一目的就是阻止我们清偿债务和废除税收。
I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.
我是一个遥远小国的儿子，其他获奖者都来自世界各地的不同国家，我们在这里都受到了同样的欢迎，表现出了同情。
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
对于一个以熙熙攘攘而臭名昭著的国家，我们花了大量的时间在窗前排队，只是等待。
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
要改革一个世界，改革一个国家，没有一个明智的人会这样做;除了愚蠢的人，所有的人都知道，唯一可靠的，虽然是一个缓慢得多的改革，是每个人开始和完善自己。
There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.
现在我们别无选择，只能越来越深地陷入银行体系的债务之中，以便为国家的扩张和增长提供越来越多的资金。
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
当我们尽了最大的努力，作为一个团结的民族，我们能够以冷静的勇气和信心面对可能发生的一切，相信这个古老的国家将继续存在下去。
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
正是普通、正直、正直的品质造就了我们国家的稳定和成功。这是一种值得骄傲的品质。但很多人似乎忽视了这一点。
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
对于一个管理不善的国家来说，第一剂灵丹妙药是货币通胀;第二是战争。两者都带来了短暂的繁荣;两者都会带来永久的毁灭。但两者都是政治和经济机会主义者的避难所。
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
这个国家孕育于自由之中，奉行的原则包括:诚实的人可以诚实地提出异议;如果他们都能说出自己的想法，大多数人就能分清是非。
But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
但在某个时候，我真的不知道……人们问过我这个问题。我不知道是什么促使我走上导演的道路，但我认为这是一个天真的想法，如果我导演，我就能扮演所有的角色。一种贪婪。
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
作为个人和国家，我们现在正遭受着社会自恋的折磨。我们祖先深爱的回声，原始美洲，已经被遗弃了。我们爱上了自己的形象，爱上了自己创造的形象，而这些形象原来就是我们自己的形象。
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.
岛上的反种族隔离囚犯，就像各个时代和国家的许多人一样，发现莎士比亚有一种特殊的能力来缓和他们的处境。他们过去常常偷偷地聚在一起看戏;有一次，这本书被分发给每个人，让他们写下自己最喜欢的台词。
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A nation is an organic thing.
一个国家是一个有机的东西。
Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.
现在出生的许多人，到他们成为选民的时候，将成为这个国家的一部分，而这个国家的天才是其他任何地方都无法比拟的，而且这个国家拥有广阔的领土，可以让这些能量和天才发挥作用。
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
我们是世界上最强大的国家。没有任何外部力量，没有任何恐怖组织能够打败我们。但是我们可以通过陷入困境来打败自己。
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
最大的错误莫过于期望或计算国与国之间的实际恩情。这是一种幻觉，经验必须医治它，一种正当的骄傲应该抛弃它。
This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.
这个国家正在被划分为黑人和白人，而现行制度鼓励这种做法。
What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation.
对国家不利的事对国家总是有利的。