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And you're waiting for me to tell you which one comes top.
你在等我告訴你哪個國家是第一名。
And I'm going to tell you, but first of all I want to tell you precisely what I mean when I say a good country.
我會告訴你，但首先讓我告訴你我對于一個好國家的精確定義是什么。
I do not mean morally good.
我并不是說道德上的好。
When I say that Country X is the goodest country on Earth, and I mean goodest, I don't mean best.
當我說某國家是世界上最好的國家，而且我說的是最好，而不是最優(yōu)秀的。
Best is something different. When you're talking about a good country, you can be good, gooder and goodest.
最優(yōu)秀是另一個意思。當你說一個國家是好國家，你可以是好的，更好的和最好的。
It's not the same thing as good, better and best.
它與優(yōu)秀的，更優(yōu)秀的和最優(yōu)秀的不同。
This is a country which simply gives more to humanity than any other country.
這是一個單純?yōu)槿祟惡推渌麌业膰邑暙I更多。
I don't talk about how they behave at home because that's measured elsewhere.
我不是說它們在家的行為如何，因為那是用其他東西來衡量的。
And the winner is Ireland.
優(yōu)勝者是愛爾蘭。
According to the data here, no country on Earth, per head of population, per dollar of GDP,
根據(jù)數(shù)據(jù)，世界上沒有任何一個國家，平均每個人，國內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值的每塊錢，
contributes more to the world that we live in than Ireland.
比愛爾蘭給予世界的更多。
What does this mean? This means that as we go to sleep at night,
這意味著什么？這意味著每晚我們睡前，
all of us in the last 15 seconds before we drift off to sleep,
我們所有人在睡前的15秒鐘，
our final thought should be, godammit, I'm glad that Ireland exists. And that...
我們最后的一個想法應該是，該死的，我真為愛爾蘭的存在感到慶幸。這...
In the depths of a very severe economic recession,
在每場劇烈的經(jīng)濟蕭條期，
I think that there's a really important lesson there,
我想這都是一個重要的功課，
that if you can remember your international obligations whilst you are trying to rebuild your own economy,
如果你能記得你的國際責任，在你重建本國經(jīng)濟的同時，
that's really something. Finland ranks pretty much the same.
那是件了不起的事。芬蘭排名差不太多。
The only reason why it's below Ireland is because its lowest score is lower than Ireland's lowest score.
它之所以排在愛爾蘭之后，是因為它的最低分比愛爾蘭的最低分低。
