The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

以资助的名义把钱花在子孙后代身上的原则,不过是在大规模地欺骗未来。

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I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.

我通常在房间里转悠,听一些昨晚的节目。如果有的话,我每天都会去蒸汽房练练嗓子。我在那里呆了半个小时,然后我吃东西,因为我不能吃超过四点钟。然后我去检查声音。这就是我的一天。

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

直到现在,我才认识到制造业力量和国家运输系统之间存在着一种相互的关系,没有它们,国家运输系统就不可能得到充分的发展。

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

甚至环绕在我们国家公园周围的风景理想,都承载着对天堂般的幸福和永恒的宁静的怀念。

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

有时候,魔法只是某人在某件事情上花费的时间比其他人合理预期的要多。