At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.

  • -- Hilda Solis 索利斯

有时,你觉得自己是唯一一个站出来改善人们工作条件的人,无论是为了集体谈判,为了获得足够的工资,还是为了知道你可以安全走出煤矿回家。

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Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

人类的神经很快就适应了最不寻常的情况和环境。我注意到,尽管我们周围的大炮轰鸣,弹片在我们头上嗖嗖作响,但还是有相当多的人在战壕里精疲力竭地睡着了。

The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.

一个社会的逐渐衰落往往是一个自我诱导的过程,试图满足不断增长的食欲,而不是身体上无法生产过去水平的食物和燃料,或维持足够的防御。

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

在边界条件下,将公地作为粪池并不会对公众造成伤害,因为没有公共,同样的行为在大都市是无法容忍的。

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

我妈妈总是告诉我要花很长时间才能到达顶峰,但要花很短的时间才能到达底部。

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

几个世纪以来,充足的国防一直是每个军国主义者的口号。

The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.

削弱恐惧的时间是在任务之前和之后。