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Ms Neiman thinks that people yearn for a sense of moral purpose.
尼曼女士認為，人都渴望一種道德的目的感。
In a world preoccupied with consumerism and petty self-interest, that gives life dignity.
在一個充斥著對消費主義和個人蠅頭小利的追求的世界里，這種道德感賦予生命以尊嚴。
People want to determine how the world works, not always to be determined by it.
人們想決定世界如何運作，而不是總被世界牽著走。
It means that people's behavior should be shaped not by who is most powerful, or by who stands to lose or gain, but by what is right despite the costs.
這意味著人們的行為不應該被誰最有權力左右，也不應該被誰會成功、誰會失敗左右，而是取決于什么是對的，不管代價有多大。
Moral sensibility is why people will suffer for their beliefs, and why acts of principled self-sacrifice are so powerful.
道德觀念解釋了為什么人們愿意為自己的信仰承受苦難，也解釋了為原則而做的自我犧牲為何有如此強大的力量。
People can distinguish what is and what ought to be.
人是能夠分清現狀和理想的。
Torture was once common in Europe's market squares.
酷刑拷打一度是歐洲的集市廣場上的家常便飯。
It is now unacceptable even when the world's most powerful nation wears the interrogator's mask.
可是今天，即使是世界上最強大的國家擺出審訊者的嘴臉，酷刑拷打也是不被接受的。
Race was once a bar to the clubs and drawing-rooms of respectable society.
種族歧視曾是某些人參加俱樂部活動或進入某個上流社會人士客廳的阻礙，
Now a black man is in the White House.
但是現在，一位黑人 已經在白宮當了總統。
