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国家
Nations
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
没有过去的国家在某些方面是矛盾的。造就一个国家的是过去，证明一个国家反对其他国家的正当性的是过去，历史学家是创造历史的人。
Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
其他国家的大多数高等法院在选择高等法院审理的案件时没有我们所享有的自由裁量权。在裁量权方面，我国法院实际上是独立的。
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
民族性格只是人类的渺小、变态和卑劣在每个国家所表现出来的特殊形式的另一个名称。凡国民戏笑别国的民，都是公义的。
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?
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
这些条约中的每一项都是维护和平的一个步骤，是防止战争的一项额外保障。正是通过这种机制，国家间的争端才能得到解决，战争才能避免。
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
如果一个国家要摆脱腐败，成为一个拥有美丽心灵的国家，我强烈认为有三个关键的社会成员可以发挥作用。他们是父亲，母亲和老师。
Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.
渐渐地，世界上发生的每件事都引起了世界各地人们的兴趣。渐渐地，世界各地有思想的人们都在对各国的行为进行评判。
Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.
数十个国家已同意参与监测，并在必要时在公海拦截和登船，以防它们被怀疑从事其中一项或两项威胁活动。
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。
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
最近，一些国家被迫借了数十亿美元用于战争;从来没有一个国家在很大程度上借钱用于教育……没有一个国家富裕到既能支付战争又能支付文明的费用。我们必须做出选择;我们不能两者兼得。
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
作为一个国家，我们为何如此痴迷于外国事物?它是我们殖民时代的遗产吗?我们需要外国电视机。我们要洋装。我们需要外国技术。为什么对进口商品如此痴迷?
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
伟大的国家只不过是幕后操作的前线，这些野心勃勃的个人之所以变得如此强大，是因为他们有能力在幕后操作时保持隐形。
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Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.
只有人们渴望和平和兄弟情谊，世界才能变得更美好。无论对个人还是对国家，即使是暂时获得的和平也不会是永久的，除非它建立在永恒原则的坚实基础之上。
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
每个国家都真诚地渴望和平;所有国家都在走自己的路，如果坚持走下去，和平就不可能实现。
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
正是因为国家倾向于愚蠢和卑劣，人类才行动得如此缓慢;正是因为个人有能力做更好的事情，它才会发生变化。
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
如果联合国要生存下去，代表它的国家必须支持它;主张它的人必须服从它;相信它的人必须为之奋斗。
And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.
论到万国的财货，你们好像是买卖的，万国的财货乃是人的，并不是丝，棉，金的。
We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
我们听说过国富论、生产能力论、市场供求论，却忘记了这些词不再有任何意义，如果它们有任何意义的话，那么人类的幸福、劳动和必需品也就不再有任何意义了。