Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

  • -- Paul Tsongas 保罗·桑格斯

七年半前,我开始了自己的旅程。对我和我的家人来说,这是一个不幸的时刻。但在那次灾难中,我获得了更深的信念。从逆境中诞生的是一种承诺,致力于那些人和那些对我真正重要的事情。

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While the level of support we can each provide certainly varies, it is very important at this time that we all do what we can to help our neighbors - not only our immediate neighbors here in Alabama, but those further away in Mississippi and Louisiana.

虽然我们每个人所能提供的支持水平肯定不同,但在这个时候,我们都应该尽我们所能帮助我们的邻居,这是非常重要的。

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

如果你想行动,你必须全身心地投入。每天发送信件和照片,在阳光下工作,不惜一切代价。如果你不下定决心,你将一事无成。

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

一个称职的工人如果不花大量的时间研究他的工作究竟有多慢,同时又能使他的雇主相信他干得不错,那他是很难找到的。

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

最强大的设备之一是扭曲时间,从人类时间到原子时间,到地质时间。有时候你可以用一个意想不到的词来完成。

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

作为一名音乐家,我对自己的生活了解得越深,我发现自己对他人的关注越来越少,而对自己想做的事情的关注越来越多。那是个好地方。

The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

这个国家已经失控,这个国家正在疯狂消费,这个国家必须停止把自己放进一个越来越深的洞里。

Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: A kite rises against the wind rather than with it.

不要惧怕逆境之风。记住:风筝是逆风放的,而不是逆风放的。

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

你知道,你必须有一些内在的哲学来处理逆境。