The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

星际飞船实际上是政治行动和反应，是志愿者的自然产物。

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

国家无权干涉国家的内政。

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

成功的革命者是政治家，不成功的革命者是罪犯。

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking.

战争是为了保持创造神话的特权。

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

政治把世界分为朋友和敌人。

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

现实政治的全部目的是通过无穷无尽的妖怪(全都是虚构的)威胁民众，让他们保持警惕(因此，他们大声疾呼，希望被带到安全的地方)。

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

政治活动家的工作不可避免地涉及在当前问题出现时必须采取立场的要求和希望自己的贡献能在时间的破坏中以某种方式幸存下来的愿望之间的某种紧张关系。

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

世界并没有发生太大的变化;男性仍然统治。

The world is governed by opinion.

世界是由意见统治的。

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

政治世界总是落后于思想世界二十年。

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

只要人们把人类最好的品质留给战争，世界就永远不会有持久的和平。和平同战争一样，需要理想主义和自我牺牲以及一种正义和充满活力的信念。

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

他们的保守主义是二手的，他们不知道自己在保护什么。

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

没有回答。不会有任何答案的。一直没有答案。这就是答案。

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

越来越多的人担心，石油公司以牺牲消费者利益为代价赚取了太多利润。

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

无论是打牌还是世界政治，都没有朋友。