A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

  • -- Walter Bagehot 沃尔特·巴格霍特

议会就是由多少闲散的人组成的一个大会议。

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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

一个有影响力的国会议员不仅要花很多钱才能成为这样的人,而且要付出时间和精力,他还必须牺牲自己的思想——至少在思想的所有特点中,最原始和最属于他自己的部分。

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

一个人不是因为专心而无所事事。有看得见的劳动,也有看不见的劳动。思即苦干,思即行。双臂交叉起作用,双手合十起作用。仰望天堂是一种创造的行为。

I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.

我很高兴得知议会通过了达灵顿铁路的议案。

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

正如我们必须解释每一个无聊的话一样,我们也必须解释每一个无聊的沉默。