Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

我们的国家现在走的道路是如此稳定,以致于表明它将走哪条路走向毁灭,也就是说:首先通过巩固权力,然后是腐败,来显示其必然的后果。

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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

很少有人能称得上具有无可比拟的优点。让我们看看他们从幼年到成年的成长过程,我们很快就会相信,他们所取得的成就是他们所追求的事业和所使用的手段的必然结果。

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

当我们在路上的时候,我发现我最畅销的专辑变成了黄金。他们吓坏了。当我们开始为范海伦的精选集争论不休时,事情真的到了紧要关头。

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

腐败就像一团雪,一旦开始滚动,它就会增加。

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

为了国家的利益,有时有必要撒弥天大谎。

Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.

时尚从不处于危机之中,因为衣服总是必不可少的。

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

但是根除腐败不足以维持一个国家的稳定。

He who spits up in the air will get it back on his beard.

向空中吐唾沫的,必使唾沫回到他的胡须上。

When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.

当你到达一个岔路口时,接受它。