A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
美国
America
In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
在拉丁美洲，你做事不是为了钱，因为那里没有钱。
we are the mightiest nation in the world and you are either with us or against us.
我们是世界上最强大的国家，你们要么支持我们，要么反对我们。
If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.
如果美洲被发现的次数和我一样多，就没有人会记得哥伦布了。
It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.
人们似乎认为，在拉丁美洲，我们对这里发生的事情并不了解。
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
其他国家的活力只存在于少数几个阶级之中，而我们大多数人却拥有这种活力。
The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.
美利坚合众国的名字来源于荷兰。
Since the earliest days of our frontier irreverence has been one of the signs of our affection.
从我们拓荒的最初日子起，不敬就一直是我们感情的表现之一。
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
上帝保佑白痴、醉汉、儿童和美利坚合众国。
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
当一个人厌倦了伦敦，他就厌倦了生活;因为伦敦有生活所能负担的一切。
I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.
我不是一个在东北接受教育的自由派精英，比如，我只是一个密西西比的孩子。
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
总有一天，以美利坚合众国为榜样，将会有一个欧洲合众国。
I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
我过去常穿网球鞋旅行;我不能再这样了。我是一个来自旧金山的老嬉皮士。
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Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
我们来自哪里不再意味着什么。我们要去哪里，我们要做什么，这些都告诉我们，我们是谁。
It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.
在那个地区，人们认为……作为该地区最重要的权力机构，目前是美利坚合众国。
But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
但是当我去芝加哥的时候，我知道我到家了。
What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.
你看到的是两个人在寻求入主白宫;他们都是新英格兰显赫家族的产物。他们都上过私立寄宿学校。他们都上了一所名牌大学。
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
在已知的历史上，没有人比美利坚合众国人民更有能力改变宇宙。没有人以如此咄咄逼人的方式去做这件事。
Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
我将永远完成的一切，都归功于上帝，归功于我父母的牺牲，以及美利坚合众国。