We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society.

我们已经进入了这样一个时代:教育不仅仅是一种奢侈品，它使一些人比其他人更有优势。在这个复杂的工业化社会里，没有它，一个人就没有了防御能力。

We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people.

我们已经从石器时代进步到了铁石心肠的时代。

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.

我们听到了一种令人难以忘怀的预感，那就是中年人将会尽职尽责，而现在的年轻人却不愿做出任何选择，除了他们觉得对自己影响最小的选择。

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

我们认为，在文明时代产生的一首伟大的诗，是对天才最出色的证明。

We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death.

我们希望变老，却害怕年老;也就是说，我们热爱生命，逃避死亡。

We in middle age require adventure.

我们到了中年，需要冒险。

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.

我们生活在一个不安、困惑、困惑、害怕它自己的力量的时代，不仅要寻找它的道路，还要寻找它的方向。

We live in an age of mediocrity.

我们生活在一个平庸的时代。

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

我们生活在一个普遍调查和探索所有运动根源的时代。

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

我们生活在一个信息驱动的时代。技术突破……正在改变战争的面貌和我们如何准备战争。

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

我们生活在一个年轻和冷漠不再是同义词的时代。我们必须为即将到来的时刻做好准备。受苦受难的数百万人代表着对未来的要求;一个国家的青年是子孙后代的受托人。

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

我们生活在一个不必要的东西成为我们唯一必需品的时代。

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

我们可以贮藏快乐，就像贮藏葡萄酒一样;但是，如果我们把品尝的时间推迟得太久，我们会发现它们都是随着年龄的增长而变质的。

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

我们非洲人抗议说，在今天这个时代，我们应该继续被当作比其他种族更低等的人来对待。

We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.

我们宁愿选择自决时代的世界法律，也不愿选择大规模灭绝时代的世界大战。