There is perhaps no better book to understand the virtues, vices, and humour of the Czech lands in the middle of the 20th century.

可能没有一本书能如此恰到好处的理解20世纪中期捷克大陆的高尚、丑恶与幽默。

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It’s as if they get elected for their virtues and then get defined in office by the vices — Clinton’s narcissism, Bush’s intellectual insecurity — they’ve never really faced.

就好像当选时是“圣人”，当选后却变成了“恶棍”-- 克林顿的自恋症，布什精神上的不安全感—他们从未真正直视自己的缺点。

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The droning, top-down television ads touting a candidate’s virtues and his rival’s vices are now supplemented by far more creative message-making.

不知不觉，通过电视广告宣扬候选者的功德和其竞争对手缺点的竞选策略也被更具创新性的信息制造方式所补充。

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Peace is for Hobbes a moral good and the virtues are those qualities of behavior that tend to peace and vices are those that lead to war. Consider the disadvantages of war and the benefits of peace.

对霍布斯来说，和平这种道德情操和,美德把人们引向和平,相反，邪恶使人们坠入战争深渊,思考一下战争的弊病和,和平的优势。

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There are countless deities who exhibit all the virtues and vices of humans, providing rich material for the sculptors' narratives.

WSJ: Enlightenment on an Intimate Scale | The Adinatha Temple at Ranakpur | Masterpiece by James S. Ackerman

Reilly from "A Confederacy of Dunces, " whose disdain for all things contemporary highlights the virtues and vices of modern life.

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Put another way, I will try to articulate the factors that should go into any process of striking the proper balances between the virtues and vices of early intervention, especially when the intervention involves the use of force, power, compulsion, censorship, incarceration and death, and most especially when the failure to intervene may also involve comparable threats, dangers and harms.

NPR: Rules Should Govern Torture, Dershowitz Says