I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

  • -- Alexis de Tocqueville 托克维尔

我不禁担心,人们可能会把每一种新理论都看成是一种危险,把每一项创新都看成是一种辛苦的麻烦,把每一项社会进步都看成是走向革命的第一步,而他们可能会完全拒绝前进。

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Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.

技术创新极大地降低了计算成本,使大量消费者能够以合理的低价拥有强大的新技术。

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

没有一场革命,就不会带来真正的社会变革……革命不过是思想付诸行动。

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

社会进步更容易通过对结果质量的关注而不是单纯的动机来实现。

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

只要你能帮助足够多的人得到他们想要的,你就能得到生活中你想要的一切。

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

革命就像一艘船,载满了千百万劳动人民跳动的心跳。

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

经常炫耀妻子和钱包的人,有被人借走的危险。

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

我明白了,信仰意味着提前相信那些在相反的情况下才有意义的事情。

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

坏消息是,只有坏人才会听到这个消息,因为他们更吵闹。

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

如果大国采取行动,小国的危险就不大。

I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.

我是一个虔诚的人,用我的心和我的生命来崇拜上帝。

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

当你到达绳子的末端时,在绳子上打个结,然后挂在绳子上。

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

金钱之于我的社会存在,正如健康之于我的身体。

I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.

我是一个外向的女孩,我无法控制自己的样子。

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

随着社会的进步,贫困的标准也在提高。

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

监管需要赶上创新。