A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
社会
Society
The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.
大众错了;个人永远是对的。
It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.
每次都很难形成一种文化现象。
The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.
贫富差距正在迅速扩大。
I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.
我预计，作为公民，我们的要求会更高。
Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.
社交媒体让网络围绕着我，我，我。
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
雪崩时没有一片雪花会感到有责任。
I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.
我想让上帝在我们的社会中更有意义。
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.
和平不仅仅是没有明显的冲突。
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
艺术在社会中的作用因艺术家而异。
I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
我对青年文化和流行文化感兴趣。
Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
凡是不常见的东西都被谴责为异类。
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.
我意识到公共事务也是我的事情。
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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。
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
小社区在和谐中成长，大社区在不和谐中破碎。
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
学校的目的不是教化一个邪恶的世界，而是传授知识和发展智力，只有两个社会目标:做好准备，在世界的工作中承担自己的一份，或许还有，在完成学业后，帮助改善社会。
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
批评和悲观主义摧毁了家庭，破坏了各种制度，几乎打败了所有人，并给整个国家蒙上了一层阴霾。
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。
The great hope of society is in individual character.
社会的最大希望在于个人的品格。