Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge.

权力，是给他人带来或好或坏影响的潜能，既可以赐福也可以降灾。

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It is not of our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

他们不但借助我们的恶来惩罚我们，也利用我们内心的美好、善良、慈悲、关爱，来毁灭我们。

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World leaders attending that summit must "face this crisis and tackle the scourge of malnutrition for good", said Ms Whitbread.

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