Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

平等也许是一种权利,但世界上没有任何力量能把它变成事实。

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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

仔细考虑一下,就会发现,智力和身体上的优势的平等是自由的唯一可靠基础,而这种平等可能是最好的,也许只有通过利益联盟和劳动合作才能实现。

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

每一个事实一方面与感觉有关,另一方面又与道德有关。思想的游戏是,在这两方面的一个方面出现后,找到另一个方面:给定上面的一面,找到下面的一面。

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

至关重要的是,国会议员必须投票支持我们国家赖以建立的价值观:人人平等、自由和机会。

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

我们是如此抽象的受害者,地球在燃烧,我们几乎不能唤醒自己漫步穿过房间,看看恒温器。

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.

我们重新回到大地上来,在瞻仰大地的美时,认识到它的神奇和谦卑,这是有益的,也是必要的。

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

流行音乐实际上是我最不喜欢的一种音乐,因为它缺乏真正的深度。