A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
政治
Political
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
在我们这个时代，政治演讲和写作在很大程度上是站不住脚的辩护。
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
我宁愿挨打，做一个男子汉，也不愿当选为一只小狗。
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
政治舞台上没有人可以选择，一个人要么是个笨蛋，要么是个流氓。
I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
我认为，随着时间的推移，企业总会变得自满。或者说大多数公司。
Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.
群体拟人化模糊而非阐明重要的政治问题。
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
你可以用传记来审视政治权力，但前提是你选对了人。
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
真是个可怜的脑袋，连两个单词都想不出来。
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
只有劳动的人才是幸福的人。懒惰的人才是可悲的人。
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
一项发明必须在它完成的世界里有意义，而不是在它开始的世界里。
To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
增加和平区，就是要建设稳定的国际和平区的核心。
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
在我的政治生涯中，我遇到过很多敌人，但没有一个我能记得的敌人。
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
自由不是达到更高政治目的的手段。这本身就是最高的政治目的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
家庭农场和小型企业是我们社区的支柱。
I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.
我从来没有做过如此政治化的事情。多年来，我一直在餐桌上大谈特谈一些严肃的问题，但从来没有真正有信心用一首歌来表达我的观点。
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。
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
在真正的工人阶级中一直存在着一个社会和政治分化的过程。
You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.
在这个时代，你不能做任何与政治无关的事情。
In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything.
在最初的日子里，我对每件事的看法都是非黑即白的。