I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

  • -- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

我想住在一个陌生的地方,在那里陌生人会急着去帮助那些有困难的人。

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More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

我越来越多地认为,私有化不仅是企业利益对资源和权力的接管,而且是公民退回到私人生活和私人空间,远离与陌生人的团结,越来越害怕甚至无法想象在公共场合采取行动。

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

我从不拒绝帮助任何黑人或白人;尽管如此,我还是喜欢这间办公室,因为它既没有费用,也没有薪水。

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.

我不贪心,所以我很乐意给别人唱一首歌,如果更有意义的话。

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

陌生人之间敌意的根源在于冷漠。

Telling someone the truth is an act of love.

告诉别人真相是一种爱的行为。

People can't help how they look.

人们无法控制自己的外表。