A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
社会
Society
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
我们都是人类同一身体中的细胞。
Society gets the kind of vandalism it deserves.
社会受到了它应得的破坏。
What we do as a society is seek simple answers.
作为一个社会,我们所做的就是寻求简单的答案。
Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.
文化,无论好坏,都是非常稳定的。
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
有那么多荒谬。贫穷是如此荒谬。
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
社会靠信仰生活,靠科学发展。
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
工作的价值取决于工人的社会价值。
Too much of our society looks for people to fail.
我们的社会有太多的人在寻找失败的人。
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
整个社会系统告诉你该做什么。
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
残忍在不文明的社会中是会传染的。
It is good for society to have this introspection.
这种反省对社会是有好处的。
We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
我们没有太多有阶级意识的电影制作。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
We imagine that times have changed, because we have, and that we have changed, because times have.
我们想象时代变了,因为我们变了,我们也变了,因为时代变了。
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
对文明的真正考验不是人口普查,也不是城市的大小,也不是庄稼——不,而是这个国家造就了什么样的人。
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
在我们的社会里,勇气的对立面不是懦弱,而是从众。
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
社会经常宽恕罪犯;它永远不会原谅梦想家。
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
虽然文明一直在改善我们的住房,但它并没有同样改善住在其中的人。它创造了宫殿,但创造贵族和国王并不容易。
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
我们不是一个熔炉,而是一幅美丽的马赛克。不同的人,不同的信仰,不同的渴望,不同的希望,不同的梦想。