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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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

事实上,真理在很大程度上依赖于信用体系。只要没有任何挑战,我们的思想和信念就会过去;只要没有人拒绝,钞票就会过去。

As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.

作为准备这些诉讼的一部分,了解这些诉讼,我了解了核生产过程中各种各样的核问题,我想你会说。

By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.

通过完善这一立法机制和参加各项国际协定,我们打算为世界贸易的健康发展作出贡献。

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

任何歧视,比如道路上的急转弯,都变得至关重要,因为我们正以惊人的速度进入服务经济的高科技世界。

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。

I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

我有一个很好的员工和支持系统,我将坚持做我一直在做的事情。

When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.

当我为他人服务时,我不再那么担心自己的体重了。

The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

物种形成的过程是随着基因交换的停止而完成的。