The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain.

  • -- Tim Scott 蒂姆·斯科特

我第一次当选时,被称为黑人社区的加略人犹大,因为我的立场与割谷的立场不一致。

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Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

我们在这里种亚麻和谷物;在这里,我们饲养它们吃的肉和羊毛来保暖;我们砍树盖房子,劈柴烧炉子。

If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.

如果你设法阻止木材工业砍伐这片森林,他们就会砍伐那片森林。如果你停止在这里开采石油,他们就会到那里去开采。

It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.

在科技前沿做广播真是太令人兴奋了。世界上最激动人心的事莫过于发现新事物。

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

我认为人们应该做他们觉得有用的事情。如果我做事情是因为我应该做,我就会停止。

Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, - A rose-red city - ‘half as old as Time’!

除了在东方气候——一座玫瑰红色的城市——“有时间一半的历史”之外,你还能配得上我这样的奇迹吗?

Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.

把秘密告诉不值得信任的人,就像把粮食装在有洞的袋子里。