What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

人们所说的友谊只不过是一种社会安排,一种利益的相互调整,一种给予和接受服务的交换;总之,这只是一个简单的业务,涉及的人建议从中获得稳定的利润,为自己的爱。

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As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

因此,进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣,所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准,而不是质量或卓越性。

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

我从第一张唱片中学到了很多,也从我的巡演经历中学到了很多,但在过去的两年里,我得到的最大的教育是学习安排的重要性。

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

越来越多的人担心,石油公司以牺牲消费者利益为代价赚取了太多利润。

We want them to stop the current arrangement, share it with the public and hold hearings.

我们希望他们停止目前的安排,与公众分享,并举行听证会。