A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
理想
Ideals
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
我想要一个忙碌的生活，一个公正的思想，和一个及时的死亡。
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
没有行动的言语是理想主义的刺客。
The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer...
每个高尚的梦想中最好的东西是梦想家……
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
理想的生活在我们的血液里，永远不会静止。
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
现实并不符合理想，却证实了理想。
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
但我们活着不是为了变得更好，而是为了改变它。
These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.
这些都是我们正在处理的经典的、永恒的理想。
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
你们要定睛看天上的星，脚踏实地。
We must lose our romanticism without losing our idealism.
我们必须在不丧失理想主义的情况下丧失浪漫主义。
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
这些爱国主义烈士为一个理想献出了生命。
Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.
理想是存在的，其余的只是暂时的中断。
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
在每一个时代，诗人和社会改革家都试图通过讲述古代英雄的美德来激励他们那个时代的人们过上更高尚的生活。
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
愤世嫉俗者认为每个人都一样腐败。理想主义者认为每个人都一样腐败，除了他们自己。
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
每一项对现有条件作出重大改变的大胆尝试，每一项对人类新的可能性的崇高设想，都被贴上乌托邦的标签。
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
一个梦想家只能在月光下找到他的路，他的惩罚是他比其他人更早看到黎明。
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.
预算不仅是数字的集合，而且是我们价值观和愿望的表达。
Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
树立一个好榜样远比使用武力更好地传播理想。