A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
请愿书
Petition
Petitions are ridiculous.
请愿是荒谬的。
It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
在我看来，拒绝接受一项请愿书，或由某种一般命令直接拒绝请愿书，与拒绝请愿权之间是无法区别的。
And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.
如果这所房子要被它的职责所吓倒，不管受到什么影响，去接受和听取人民的请愿，那么我将把我的声音送出这座国会大厦的高墙，要求纠正。
The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
诺曼人手里拿着长矛走过来，把他们面前的一切都烧了，践踏了，用剑刃把撒克逊王朝和撒克逊贵族砍了个精光;但是请愿的权利仍然没有受到影响。
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
商业是我们国家生活的基础，包括我们的精神生活。在主祷文中，第一项祈求是要每天有面包。没有人能空着肚子敬拜神或爱他的邻居。