A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
国家
Nations
Remember where you came from.
记住你来自哪里。
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
格言是浓缩的国家的美好感觉。
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
商业改变国家的命运和天才。
Great countries are those that produce great people.
伟大的国家造就伟大的人民。
What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
什么诗不能拯救民族和人民?
The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
联合国在这方面有很多能力。
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
每个国家都嘲笑其他国家,所有国家都是对的。
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。
Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.
国家不是暴徒。他们是聪明人的身体。
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
最幸福的女人,就像最幸福的民族一样,没有历史。
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
一个国家的力量来自家庭的完整。
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
国家和个人一样,都要为他们的罪行受到惩罚。
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Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.
正如一个人在年轻时推迟满足的能力是未来学术和专业成就的有力预测器一样,纪律对于国家的长期经济健康也至关重要。
If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.
如果英美联盟是和平事业中一个强有力的因素,那么日耳曼种族和盎格鲁-撒克逊种族的两个分支之间的新三联将对世界的未来产生更大的影响。
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
但是,当人类的自由引起了开明人士的注意,并得到了所有文明国家慷慨大方的感情时,我们难道不能问问这种自由是否得到了正确的理解吗?
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
如果你想研究现代国家的社会和政治史,那就去研究地狱吧。
Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.
半个世纪以前,情况完全不同。在经济上,我们实际上是跪着的,在政治上,我们仍然被排除在国际社会之外。今天,在这方面,我们有一个完全不同和稳定得多的基础。
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
民族就像植物和人类一样生长。如果发展受阻,它们就会变得渺小和黯然失色。