Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

  • -- Fareed Rafiq Zakaria 法雷德·拉菲克·扎卡里亚

保守派过去相信要面对残酷的事实,而不是屈服于令人宽慰的童话。一些还在做。

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The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

我们的文化和常识背后的神话并没有教会我们与宇宙有相同的感觉,而只是宇宙的一部分,只是其中的一部分,只是面对它——外星人。

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

国防承包商能够获得巨大的利润,但却很少面临这些利润本应作为回报的风险。

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

通过“激进”,我理解一个人走得太远;“保守主义者”指的是走得不够远的人;被一个“反动分子”,一个根本不愿去的人。

It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

众所周知,最激进的革命者在革命后的第一天就会变成保守派。