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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

许多政治家习惯于把它作为一个不言自明的命题，即在人们能够充分利用他们的自由之前，没有人应该是自由的。这句格言就像古老故事里的傻瓜，他决定在学会游泳之前不下水。

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What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.

我所收集到的东西并不是这座城市的钥匙，在很多城市都是如此。这是自由勋章，对我来说，自由一直与这座城市的传统联系在一起。

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You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

你知道，小说的意义，或者对我来说，小说的意义，小说的礼物是深入人们的生活和个人经历。

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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

我从万古就存在，看哪，我在这里。我将存在到时间的尽头，因为我的存在没有尽头。

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I learned that it is possible to make conversation with anyone, if you figure out what they wish to discuss.

我了解到，如果你能弄清楚他们想要讨论什么，就有可能与任何人交谈。

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Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

被你剥夺了一切的人不再在你的掌控之中。他又一次完全自由了。

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I've learned that verbal abuse can be just as damaging as physical abuse and take longer to heal from.

我了解到，言语虐待和身体虐待一样有害，而且需要更长的时间才能痊愈。

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We have a habit in this country of correcting things just as they are about to correct themselves.

在这个国家，我们有一种习惯，就是在事情即将自我纠正的时候纠正它们。

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

第一条原则是你不能欺骗自己，你是最容易被欺骗的人。

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We are what we repeatedly do excellence, therefore is not an act, but a habit.

我们是我们反复做的优秀的人，因此不是一种行为，而是一种习惯。

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A fool thinks himself to bewise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

傻瓜自以为聪明，但聪明人知道自己是傻瓜。

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It isn't me that people love. It's baseball.

人们爱的不是我。这是棒球。

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No hero is mortal till he dies.

英雄非死不可。

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