More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

  • -- Peter Albert David Singer 彼得·艾伯特·大卫·辛格

更常见的情况是道德和权宜之计之间的妥协。

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Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people.

理性引导我们试图了解周围的世界。理性和同情心都引导我们努力将知识运用到道德上,去理解他人,并与他人建立道德关系。

It is very difficult and expensive to undo after you are married the things that your mother and father did to you while you were putting your first six birthdays behind you.

当你结婚后,你的父母对你做的那些事,你把你的头六个生日抛诸脑后,想要消除它们是非常困难和昂贵的。

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

只要方便,谁也不会被遗忘。

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

习惯适应权宜。