18. Our hope for creative living in this world house that we have inherited lies in our ability to re-establish the moral ends of our lives in personal character and social justice.
我们希望富有创造性地生活在我们继承的这个世界家庭当中,这种希望存在于我们重新建立人类个性和社会公平方面的生活道德目标的能力之中。
19. From the very day of the capitulation, by which Bismark’s prisoners had signed the surrender of France but reserved to themselves a numerous bodyguard for the express purpose of cowing Paris, Paris stood on the watch.
从法国投降那一天起,巴黎就严加戒备,因为屈从于俾斯麦的法国政府签约投降时,保留了一支相当庞大的军事力量,目的是为了威胁恐吓巴黎。
20. When I’m having trouble with a story and think about giving up, or when I start to feel sorry for myself and think things should be easier for me, I roll a piece of paper into that cranky old machine and type, word by painful word, just the way my mother did.
每当我写文章遇到困难想打退堂鼓时,或是自叹不走运时,我就往那台破旧的打字机里卷进一张纸,像妈妈当年一样,一个字一个字吃力地打着。
21. What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man coming in for a routine physical check up just before going on vacation with his family who, though he feels in perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months?
举例来说,一个46岁的男子,在与家人外出度假之前进行常规体检。虽然他自我感觉良好,但医生发现他患了某种形式的癌症,不超过6个月就会死去。这时,医生该怎么对他讲呢?
22. Between midnight and dawn, when sleep will not come and all the old wounds begin to ache, I often have a nightmare vision of a future world in which there are billions of people, all numbered and registered, with not a gleam of genius anywhere, not an original mind, a rich personality, on the whole packed globe.
在午夜和黎明之间,每当我不能入睡,一切旧的创伤开始疼痛的时候,我常常想象未来世界的恶梦般的情景,在所有登记编号入册的亿万人民生活的这个拥护不堪的世界上,没有一处有一线天才的光芒、独创性的头脑和丰富多彩的个性。
23. It needs men who can be prompted without an aim except the aim to be on the move, to function, to go ahead.
社会需要这样的人：他们只为一种目标所激励,即积极行动、恪尽职守、奋发向上。
24. We live in a narrowed world where we must be alert, awake to realism; and realism demands a standard which either must be met or result in failure.
我们生活在一个狭窄的世界里,我们必须对现实主义保持警觉并有所认识,现实主义要求有一个标准,不是达到这个标准,就是以失败告终。
25. We can expose our children to the best values we have found.
