A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
国家
Nations
These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
这些逃兵是我们的祸根。在我最后放下笔之前，我还有许多话要对他们说，我要毫不犹豫地直呼他们的真名，这个名字将永远铭刻在世界各国的面前。
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。
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
一个国家的债务，如果不过度，将是我们国家的福祉。
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。
Great countries are those that produce great people.
伟大的国家造就伟大的人民。
In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.
事实上，有效地声援穷人，包括个人和整个国家，对建设和平是必不可少的。
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。
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。