God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

  • -- D. H. Lawrence 劳伦斯

天哪,我多么讨厌新的国家:他们比旧的国家更老,更世故,更自负,只是出于某种幼稚的虚荣心而年轻,这种虚荣心比任何东西都更像衰老。

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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

我们决不能成为新的清教徒,拒绝我们的社会。我们必须共同应对和把握未来。如果我们恢复这样一种信念,即我们拥有共同的国家共同体意识,我们拥有共同的国家努力,我们就能做到这一点。这是可以做到的。

I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.

我想成为女性群体的一员,帮助女性获得权力,但我认为我不一定是政治人物。我这么说是因为我真的很讨厌政客,所以我不喜欢整天坐在那里想着他们。

Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

让我谈谈克林顿的新提议:公立学校要有校服。人们正在这样做。他们怎么会这么做?着装规范!我觉得这很可恶。

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

我们可以爱的人,我们可以恨;对别人我们漠不关心。