A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
美国
America
And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God.
这是古老的波士顿,豆子和鳕鱼的故乡,洛厄尔人与卡波特人交谈,卡波特人只与上帝交谈。
London is enchanting. I step out upon a tawny coloured magic carpet, it seems, and get carried into beauty without raising a finger.
伦敦是迷人的。我踏在一张黄褐色的魔毯上,似乎不需要动一根手指就能进入美丽的世界。
There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
没有任何地方、任何国家比美利坚合众国更富有同情心、更慷慨大方、更能接受和更受欢迎。
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
感谢上帝,我们生活在一个没有极限的国度,商店很晚才开门,多亏了电视,你可以在床上购物。
Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.
让我以我个人的观点来说。没有美利坚合众国,我今天很可能无法站在你们面前。
Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.
我们的世界太小,不允许歧视、偏执和不容忍在世界任何角落蓬勃发展,更不用说在美利坚合众国了。
I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.
我希望你能找到一个你离不开的人。我真的。我希望你永远不必知道没有他们的生活是什么样子。
Latin America owes its being to the European, and should not deny it...but, while accepting the white man’s superior ideals, we do not accept his arrogance.
拉丁美洲的存在是欧洲的功劳,不应该否认……但是,在接受白人优越的理想的同时,我们不接受他的傲慢。
There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.
利物浦有很多著名的喜剧演员,当然还有披头士和足球俱乐部。这就是利物浦人的热情所在。
It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.
很难弄清楚我们如何在欧洲和北美竞争,因为我们的最低生活工资显然与印尼的最低生活工资大不相同。
Every day, the people I meet inspire me... every day, they make me proud... every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.
每一天,我遇到的人都激励着我……每一天,他们都让我感到骄傲……每一天,他们都在提醒我,生活在地球上最伟大的国家是多么幸运。
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
自由女神像不再说:‘把你们可怜的、疲惫的、拥挤的群众给我。她拿着棒球棒大喊,“你想了解我吗?”
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You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes.
你对哭泣的女人感到困惑,我对与王子散步感到困惑。
I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.
我记得有一次我们准备去南美,所有的东西都收拾好了,准备上车,我藏了起来,我哭了,因为我真的不想去,我想玩。我不想去。
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。
I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.
我觉得我这辈子都像个北方佬。
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。
In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.
在曼哈顿,直到今天在某种程度上都是如此;这是一个完全不同的心态,从布朗克斯,布鲁克林和皇后区,这是我不知道的,因为你基本上只知道你的邻居。