The government, after all, can do the thinking for us. Our sense of civic duty to engage in public debate and critical thinking is lost except unfortunately for issues that affect our pockets.

很不幸的，正是这种想法使我们失去了作为公民应有义务参与辩论和深入分析问题的责任感，除非有关的课题会影响我们的口袋，我们才会有所反应。

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We're all pretty much the same except, of course, for the little things that make us different.

我们所有人几乎都完全一样，当然，除了那些使我们不同的小东西。

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The principal wasn't about to change his position and no one would vouch for us except for our own parents.

老派克是不会改变他顽固的立场的，除了我们的父母谁又会来为我们说话呢？ 这些话明摆着是讲也等于不讲的。

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