A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

  • -- Robert M. Hutchins 罗伯特·M·哈钦斯

一个国际社会只有通过世界通讯才能存在,这意味着不仅仅是遍布全球的广泛的短波设施。它意味着共同的理解、共同的传统、共同的思想和共同的理想。

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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

最重要的事情往往是最难说出口的。它们是你感到羞耻的东西,因为语言会减少你的感觉——当你脑海中永恒的东西被拿出来的时候,它们只会缩小到活生生的大小。

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

阅读当地报纸的社论版。无论你的政治意识形态如何,它都能让你接触到不同的观点,可能会非常具有挑衅性,或许还能极大地激励你参与到社区中来。

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.

全球比以往任何时候都更加认识到,如果没有健康的家庭、社区和国家,长期的社会、经济和环境发展将是不可能的。

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

现在有一个关于地球飞船的特别重要的事实,那就是没有说明书。

A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.

一个社区一旦同意抛弃其最弱小的成员,它就开始分崩离析。

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

让嘲笑你的房间安静下来的唯一方法就是接管。

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

沉默是一种容易引起严重误解的说法。

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

舌头是唯一随着使用而变得锋利的工具。