The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

  • -- Edward Dahlberg 爱德华·达尔伯格

机器对美德、怜悯和爱情产生了有害的影响,习惯于机器的年轻人会产生惰性和恐惧,他们几乎无能为力。

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The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.

答案是,在布隆迪,拥有一份干净的健康证明具有非常特殊的意义:除非并且直到你支付了医院的治疗费用,否则你根本不能离开,你实际上是一个俘虏。

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

如果我们对动物创造的经济只给予很少的关注,我们就会发现明显的预谋、毅力、决心和完善技巧的例子,以便达到它们的目的。

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

主要的原因是一种有害的谎言,传播反对她的存在,即她是劣等的性质。差在什么?在同样有利的条件下,男人做过那个女人不能做的事吗?

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

如果我有一个想法,我会把它写下来,尽管我通常随身携带一个小听写机,因为我太懒了,不愿意写。

I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'

我希望在我离开这个世界时,人们能说,“他不只是一台赚钱的机器。”