The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

  • -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee 阿塔尔·比哈里·瓦杰帕伊

现实是,像联合国这样的国际机构只能在其成员国允许的范围内发挥效力。

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Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.

现在,现代经济有一个非常有效的机制来决定工资是否真的过高:这就是所谓的自由市场。毕竟,大多数人的工资都是这样确定的,包括大联盟棒球运动员和欧洲足球运动员。

The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking that if people are vegetarian for one day a week, that makes a huge difference!

联合国在两年前做了一项研究,这让我大吃一惊。我开始想,如果人们每周有一天吃素,情况就会大不一样!

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

在冷战后的狂喜中,有一种错误的观念认为,联合国可以在任何地方解决所有问题。

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

我们人生的事业不是要成功,而是要保持良好的精神状态,不断地失败。

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

我们这个世纪的现实是不需要面对的。

You don't have to be noisy to be effective.

你不需要太吵才能有效。