A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

一个政治领导人必须时刻回头看看那些男孩是否还在那里。如果他们不在那里，他就不再是政治领袖。

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

政治理论试图从历史中找到政治可能性的极限。

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

政治家是一个张大嘴巴处理每一个问题的政治家。

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

政治家是一种既能保持中立又能密切注意事态发展的动物。

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water.

政客是那种即使没有水也会承诺建一座桥的人。

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

一个政治家的话所揭示的，与其说是他对他的主题的看法，不如说是他对他的听众的看法。

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

一个对人民生活的关切和环境不敏感的政治，一个不与人民对话、不把人民包括在内的政治，是一个理应失败的自以为是的政治。

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

一个一无所有的穷人，除了面包，更需要希望、幻想。

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

糟糕的关系是自然界中最无关紧要的事情。

A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing.

一个可怜的，虚弱的，瘫痪的，教堂墓地里的东西。

A populous railway town of hideous brick shops and habitations.

人口稠密的铁路城镇，有丑陋的砖厂和住宅。

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

门户是一种视觉或听觉的过渡装置，其功能类似于“这个”和“那个”之间的第三个引力体，将我们拉向自己，让我们从已知走向未知。

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

肖像画是一幅嘴巴有毛病的画。

A possession intended to last for ever.

一种永久的财产。

A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

马铃薯可以很容易地在一小块土地上生长。通过分子制造，我们将能够实现分布式制造，这将允许现场制造使用低成本且容易获得的技术。