A monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom, whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in water.

  • -- Fisher Ames 费希尔·埃坶斯

君主是商船,它航行得很好,但有时会触礁沉没,而共和国是一只永不沉没的木筏,但你的脚总是在水里。

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Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

给我三十年的平等遗产分配和新闻自由,我就会给你一个共和国。

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

我的同胞们委托制作了一尊共和国的半身像。它将被放置在我家乡的喷泉上。

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

有时我们不得不做的事情在别人眼里是令人反感的。

I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

我觉得今天的音乐糟透了。我是认真的。