A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
社会
Society
First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
首先,我们并不总是欢迎移民。
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
任何有趣文明的精华都是混合的。
Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.
贫困是我们必须跨越的边界。
Today the search for a new global order is under way.
今天,正在寻求一种新的全球秩序。
In our society a man is known by the company he owns.
在我们的社会里,一个人的知名度取决于他所拥有的公司。
If your support the community, they will support you.
如果你支持社区,他们也会支持你。
The great hope of society is in individual character.
社会的最大希望在于个人的品格。
I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.
我不认为我们生活在一个特别平等的社会。
Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring.
我们的社会需要重建关怀的文化。
I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.
我不知道应该接纳多少移民。
The earth is but one country and Mankind its citizens.
地球是一个国家,人类是它的公民。
Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
艺术家将成为这个社会的节拍器。
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。
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
一个有高水平志愿活动的社会,将比一个没有志愿活动的社会更美好、更幸福。
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。
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
有创造力的人有能力将自己从社会压力的网中解放出来,而我们其他人则被困在其中。他能够质疑我们其他人接受的假设。
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
只有当学校减少了孩子的机会对社会出身的依赖时,学校才会成功。
If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.
如果我们在未来一二十年里不主动控制人口增长,大自然将以最残酷的方式为我们控制人口增长,不管我们喜不喜欢。