He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

  • -- William Ellery Channing 钱宁

对现在的责任不忠的人,会把织布机上的一根线弄断,当你解开一生的织布时,你就会看到效果。

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It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.

正是对倒立自我的大众梦想,充斥着明显的和秘密的恐惧,形成了一根连续的但更薄的线,把所有文明从遥远的过去的记录串成幽灵的珠子,直到今天和现在。

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

我们这个城市的人民危在旦夕。时间已经不多了。我们能再活一个晚上吗?我们能依靠谁呢?只有上帝知道。

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

父爱是假装你最爱的礼物是系在绳子上的肥皂。

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

政治的悲哀职责是在罪恶的世界里建立正义。

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

有时候,过去似乎太大了,以至于现在无法把握。

To do my duty, I must obey God.

为了履行我的职责,我必须服从上帝。