There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

  • -- Elliot Lee Richardson 李理查森

不仅失败的感觉越来越普遍,而且徒劳无益的感觉也越来越普遍。立法过程变成了一场残酷的空壳游戏,服务体系变成了官僚主义的迷宫,效率低下,令人费解,难以进入。

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Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis.

此外,这种结合需要蛋白质合成所需的相同成分,并受到相同抑制剂的抑制。因此,该系统不太可能是一个完整的人工制品,很可能与真正的蛋白质合成密切相关。

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

我的印象是,大多数的女性公共服务工作者都是脾气暴躁的。正是因为他们比任何人都更关心服务,所以他们仍然希望找到一个合理和公平的谈判协议。但他们的耐心已经耗尽。

The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.

一个爱国者,如果他觉得自己在为上帝服务,在他的一切道路上都承认他,他就会得到全能的指引,并在他最大的黑暗中找到他的话语。

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

我们一定会失败……但失败时要以一种学习的姿态,下定决心不重蹈覆辙,并最大限度地从学习过程中获益。

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

这一法案在立法上相当于漏洞。它会产生短期高点,但会对系统造成长期损害,而且启动成本很高。

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

写作的过程,摆弄段落,试图写出真正好的散文,是我与生俱来的性格。

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

我会拿到助学贷款,拿到钱,注册,然后就再也不去了。我原以为这个系统会以某种方式成功。