A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
政治
Political
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
暴行是人类的本性——他们没有政治信仰、肤色、信条或诸如此类的东西。他们只是发生了，这是人。
Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
如果有人说我写政治人物是因为我对政治人物感兴趣，那就大错特错了。
I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.
我想成为那些没有时间读报纸的人的拥护者。或者是用来做政治贡献的钱。
Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.
欧洲实力雄厚。我们需要凝聚这种力量，我非常支持这一点——更深入的政治联盟。
There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.
一个人的生活中没有不涉及政治的私人领域，也没有不涉及个人的政治问题。
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
政治混乱与语言的衰落有关。一个人也许可以通过从语言的结尾开始带来一些改善。
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运，不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
人们不能自由地思考化学和生物学:为什么应该允许他们自由地思考政治哲学?
The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
最具影响力的政治声音，是那些以不同的方式看待和处理世界及其发出的声音的人。
I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.
我认为如果我谈论一个政治话题，如果我谈论它，它会在这个问题上分裂观众。那不是我的问题。
I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.
我在西部长大，在土地上长大，接受过地质学的教育。我带着我们应该做什么的愿景来到这里。
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.
我的父母在我出生的时候就离婚了，我的母亲是一位政治学教授，就像一位女权主义的摩门教徒，这有点自相矛盾。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
由于长命百岁，我经历过许多这样的事例:由于获得了更好的信息或更充分的考虑，我不得不改变自己的观点，甚至在一些重要的问题上也是如此。我曾经认为这些观点是正确的，但后来发现事实并非如此。
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
闲暇是做有用之事的时间。这种闲暇，勤奋的人能够获得，懒惰的人却永远得不到。
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
说得多的人大错特错。
I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
我不喜欢过多的政治数据，因为我不觉得它们抒情。
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
就我们的政治利益而言，我们比世界上任何其他民族都更彻底地是一个开明的民族。我们当中的每一个人都读书，在他所处的环境中，读书是如此的容易，以致于有空闲的时间来讨论进步和获取信息。
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
人民的声音据说是上帝的声音;而且，无论这句格言被引用和相信的程度有多普遍，它都不符合事实。人民是动荡多变的，他们很少判断或决定正确的。