For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

  • -- Elliot Lee Richardson 李理查森

对你们来说,国家是一个有自己目的的实体,人民可以被要求为之服务。对我们来说,这个词只是一个标签,用来表示我们人民把共同关心的事情的责任委托给我们中间的一些人所作的安排。

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First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

首先,创作总是存在着艺术上的挑战。或者是那段时期贫民窟生活的特殊经历,并以一本书的形式将其写出来。然后我感到对我的家庭有某种责任。

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

嗯,这是一个幽默连环画,所以我的首要职责一直是娱乐读者……但是,如果我能帮助读者对我关心的问题进行思考和判断,那就更好了。

It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really.

它是从制作儿童电视节目的想法发展而来的。实际上,它有点枯燥,有点规则,有太多的人从你的肩膀上看过去,它并不是真的。

Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.

我关心的是人民,关心的是维护稳定,关心的是让人们在城市的各个阶层——种族、民族、贫富——共同工作。

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

没有任何一种艺术形式能像诗歌那样,把语言的原创性作为其本质和持久的关注重点。

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

重点是,人们经常说谎,有时是出于习惯。没有多少人擅长讲真话。