A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS

人民

People

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

对你们来说,国家是一个有自己目的的实体,人民可以被要求为之服务。对我们来说,这个词只是一个标签,用来表示我们人民把共同关心的事情的责任委托给我们中间的一些人所作的安排。

People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.

人们应该决定“你愿意花这么多钱去火星吗?”“我认为地球上的普通人永远不会花那么多钱——他们必须把钱花在有意义的事情上,这无疑是在拯救我们的地球。”

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。

People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

人们总是喜欢害怕。人们喜欢那种肾上腺素的刺激。人们喜欢过山车。人们喜欢跳伞。这些东西真的能让你心跳加速,我想恐怖片是一种让你心跳加速的安全方法。

You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.

你付不出足够的钱让我当执法人员。他们的工作很难。你必须解决人们的问题,你必须照顾他们,你必须总是和坏人玩猫捉老鼠的游戏。我非常尊重他们。

Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.

事实上,我认为我的观点和现在在神经科学和心理学领域正在进行的许多工作是一致的,人们正在研究意识与神经和认知过程的关系,而不是试图将其简化为这些过程。

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

我相信普通人会放弃很多,如果他真的明白不放弃的代价。事实上,我们可能会发现,当我们大幅削减能源消耗时,我们实际上提高了我们的生活水平。

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.

当汽油和橡胶实行配给,电力和运输设施日益稀少,人力短缺日益严重时,人们很难理解,除了战争最重要的需要之外,汽油和橡胶越来越多地用于其他用途。

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

成为受害者对人们很有吸引力。而不是必须考虑整个情况,关于历史、你的团队和你在做什么……如果你从受害者的角度出发,你已经成功了一半。我的意思是智力。

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