Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

  • -- George Gilder 基尔德

电视并不因为人们粗俗而粗俗;这是粗俗的,因为人们在他们的好色的利益上是相似的,在他们的文明的关注上是截然不同的。

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For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

对你们来说,国家是一个有自己目的的实体,人民可以被要求为之服务。对我们来说,这个词只是一个标签,用来表示我们人民把共同关心的事情的责任委托给我们中间的一些人所作的安排。

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

当我开始写的时候,我从来没有想过评论。我从来没有想过人们会怎么评价我,我只是一个年轻人,对成为喜剧演员和演员感到兴奋,我只想做我该做的事。

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

一个文明社会至少应该为那些努力工作、毕生储蓄的人提供慷慨的基本国家养老金。

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

凡夫俗子永远是最杰出的人,因为非常想出名的欲望就是凡夫俗子。

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

我对目前重组我国情报机构的努力确实感到担忧。

I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.

我认为有很多人不喜欢我们是很正常的。

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

她仍然不如男人文明,主要是因为她没有受过教育。

Frugality is for the vulgar.

节俭是为俗人准备的。