For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

对于自由的人民,并打算保持自由的人民,有组织和武装的民兵是他们最好的保障。

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As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

作为个体,人天生善良。我对群体的看法有些悲观。当我看到我们国家发生的事情时,我仍然非常担心,我们的国家在很多方面是世界上最幸运的地方。我们似乎对为我们的孩子把我们的国家变成一个更美好的地方并不感到兴奋。

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

在我看来,抚养孩子不仅是一项充满爱和责任的工作,而且是一项和世界上任何光荣的职业一样有趣和具有挑战性的职业,是一项要求我尽我所能做到最好的职业。

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

对我来说,这部小说是关于持续和有组织的寻找。我确实认为人们渴望一种持续的参与,那种书中所能提供的专注。

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

累积自然选择进化理论是我们所知道的唯一一个理论上能够解释有组织复杂性存在的理论。

Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.

古怪的人不在乎自己是否古怪。他们是最有趣的交谈,因为没有什么是禁区。

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

与其忍受不幸,不如不为快乐所腐蚀。

It may not be the best in someone else's eyes, but it's the best I can do.

这也许不是别人眼中最好的,但这是我能做的最好的。

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

许多富人只不过是他们财产的看门人。