"There's been a bump in the road here, but it will be good to get back to the talks there will be good days and bad days, as there always are in these sorts of negotiations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

Is it part of your nature to be good or bad or is it largely due to the situation that you fall in?

人性究竟是善还是恶,或者说是否应当更多地归因于所处的环境

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I think that at least for many of us, there is a sort of logical conundrum we go through and that is, if good people don't vote then we'll be in a bad world; so I have to vote to prove that good people vote, then maybe it will happen.

我想,至少对大部分人来说,必须面对一个逻辑上的难题,就是,如果好人不投票,那我们将会生活在坏人操纵的世界里,所以我必须要投票,来证明好人会投票,那未来的国家将会由好人掌控

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People have referred to this as a J shaped curve with this little up tick in the left hand side and people--some people have sort of said, well maybe it's not so bad to be overweight because it's not so good to be underweight as well and that's a problem.

人们把这称为J形曲线,最左边有一个向上的弯钩,因此就有人说,也许超重也不一定就是一件坏事,因为体重过轻也不是什么好事,这是个问题

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