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That’s wonderful. What You said there is just wonderful. I wish the world could get that. I wish the world could under-stand, could believe.

 

This book will help that. You are helping1 that. So you are playing a role, you are doing your part, in raising the Collective Consciousness. That is what all must do.

 

Yes.

Can we move to a new subject now? I think it’s important that we talk about this attitude—this idea of things—which You said a while back that You wanted to fairly present.

The attitude to which I am referring is this attitude, held by many people, that the poor have been given enough; that we must stop taxing the rich—penalizing them, in effect, for working hard and “making it”—to provide even more for the poor.

These people believe that the poor are poor basically be-cause they want to be. Many don’t even attempt to pull themselves up. They would rather suckle at the government teat than assume responsibility for themselves.

There are many people who believe that redistribution of the wealth—sharing—is a socialistic evil. They cite the Com-munist Manifesto4—”from each according to his ability, to each according to his need”—as evidence of the satanic origin of the idea of ensuring the basic human dignity of all through the efforts of everyone.

These people believe in “every man for himself.” If they are told that this concept is cold and heartless, they take refuge in the statement that opportunity knocks at the door of everyone equally; they claim that no man operates under an inherent disadvantage; that if they could “make it,” everybody can—and if someone doesn’t, “it’s his own damn fault.”

 

You feel that is an arrogant5 thought, rooted in ungratefulness.

 

Yes. But what do You feel?

 

I have no judgment6 in the matter. It is simply a thought. There is only one question of any relevance7 regarding this or any other thought. Does it serve you to hold that? In terms of Who You Are and Who You seek to Be, does that thought serve you?

Looking at the world, that is the question people have to ask. Does it serve us to hold this thought?

I observe this: There are people—indeed, entire groups of people—who have been born into what you call disadvantage. This is observably true.

It is also true that at a very high metaphysical level, no one is “disadvantaged,” for each soul creates for itself the exact people, events, and circumstances needed to accomplish what It wishes to accomplish.

You choose everything. Your parents. Your country of birth. All the circumstances surrounding your re-entry.

Similarly, throughout the days and times of your life you continue to choose and to create people, events, and circumstances designed to bring you the exact, right, and perfect opportunities you now desire in order to know yourself as you truly are.

In other words, no one is “disadvantaged,” given what the soul wishes to accomplish. For example, the soul may wish to work with a handicapped body or in a repressive society or under enormous political or economic constraints8, in order to produce the condi-tions needed to accomplish what it has set out to do.

So we see that people do face “disadvantages” in the physical sense, but that these are actually the right and perfect conditions metaphysically.

 

As a practical matter, what does that mean to us? Should we offer help to the “disadvantaged,” or simply see that, in truth, they are just where they want to be and thus allow them to “work out their own Karma”?

 

That’s a very good—and a very important—ques-tion.

Remember first that everything you think, say, and do is a reflection of what you’ve decided9 about yourself; a statement of Who You Are; an act of creation in your deciding who you want to be. I keep returning to that, because that is the only thing you are doing here; that is what you are up to. There is nothing else going on, no other agenda for the soul. You are seeking to be and to experience Who You Really Are—and to create that. You are creating yourself anew in every moment of Now.

 

Now, within that context, when you come across a person who appears, in relative terms as observed within your world, to be disadvantaged, the first ques-tion you have to ask is: Who am I and who do I choose to be, in relationship to that?

In other words, the first question when you encoun-ter another in any circumstance should always be: What do I want here?

Did you hear that? Your first question, always, must be: What do I want here?—not: What does the other person want here?

 

That’s the most fascinating insight I have ever received about the way to proceed in human relationships. It also runs against everything I’ve ever been taught.

 

I know. But the reason your relationships are in such a mess is that you’re always trying to figure out what the other person wants and what other people want—in-stead of what you truly want. Then you have to decide whether to give it to them. And here is how you decide:

You decide by taking a look at what you may want from them. If there’s nothing you think you’ll want from them, your first reason for giving them what they want disappears, and so you very seldom do. If, on the other hand, you see that there is something you want or may want from them, then your self-survival mode kicks in, and you try to give them what they want.

Then you resent it—especially if the other person doesn’t eventually give you what you want.

In this game of I’ll Trade You, you set up a very delicate balance. You meet my needs and I’ll meet yours.

 

Yet the purpose of all human relationships—rela-tionships between nations as well as relationships be-tween individuals—has nothing to do with any of this. The purpose of your Holy Relationship with every other person, place, or thing is not to figure out what they want or need, but what you require or desire now in order to grow, in order to be Who you want to Be.

That is why I created Relationship to other things. If it weren’t for this, you could have continued to live in a vacuum, a void, the Eternal Allness whence you came.

Yet in the Allness you simply are and cannot expe-rience your “awareness10”- as anything in particular be-cause, in the Allness, there is nothing you are not.

So I devised a way for you to create anew, and Know, Who You Are in your experience. I did this by providing you with:

 

1. Relativity—a system wherein you could exist as a thing in relationship to something else.

2. Forgetfulness—a process by which you willingly submit to total amnesia11, so that you can not know that relativity is merely a trick, and that you are All of It.

3. Consciousness—a state of Being in which you grow until you reach full awareness, then becoming a True and Living God, creating and experiencing your own reality, expanding and exploring that reality, changing and re-creating that reality as you stretch your consciousness to new limits—or shall we say, to no limit.

In this paradigm12, Consciousness is everything.

Consciousness—that of which you are truly aware—is the basis of all truth and thus of all true spirituality.

 

But what is the point of it all? First You make us forget Who We Are, so that we can remember Who We Are?

 

Not quite. So that you can create Who You Are and Who You Want to Be.

This is the act of God being God. It is Me being Me—through. you!

This is the point of all life.

Through you, I experience being Who and What I Am.

Without you, I could know it, but not experience it.

Knowing and experiencing are two different things. I’ll choose experiencing every time.

Indeed, I do. Through you.

 

I seem to have lost the original question here.

 

Well, it’s hard to keep God on one subject. I’m kind of expansive.

Let’s see if we can get back.

Oh, yes—what to do about the less fortunate.

First, decide Who and What You Are in Relationship to them.

Second, if you decide you wish to experience your-self as being Succor13, as being Help, as being Love and Compassion14 and Caring, then look to see how you can best be those things.

And notice that your ability to be those things has nothing to do with what others are being or doing.

Sometimes the best way to love someone, and the most help you can give, is to leave them alone or empower them to help themselves.

 

It is like a feast. Life is a smorgasbord, and you can give them a big helping of themselves.

Remember that the greatest help you can give a person is to wake them up, to remind them of Who They Really Are. There are many ways to do this. Sometimes with a little bit of help; a push, a shove, a nudge ... and sometimes with a decision to let them run their course, follow their path, walk their walk, without any interference or intervention15 from you. (All parents know about this choice and agonize16 over it daily.)

What you have the opportunity to do for the less fortunate is to re-mind them. That is, cause them to be of a New Mind about themselves.

And you, too, have to be of a New Mind about them, for if you see them as unfortunate, they will.

Jesus’ great gift was that he saw everyone as who they truly are. He refused to accept appearances; he refused to believe what others believed of themselves. He always had a higher thought, and he always invited others to it.

Yet he also honored where others chose to be. He did not require them to accept his higher idea, merely held it out as an invitation.

 

He dealt, too, with compassion—and if others chose to see themselves as Beings needing assistance, he did not reject them for their faulty assessment17, but allowed them to love their Reality—and lovingly assisted them in playing out their choice.

For Jesus knew that for some the fastest path to Who They Are was the path through Who They Are Not.

He did not call this an imperfect path and thus con-demn it. Rather he saw this, too, as “perfect”—and thus supported everyone in being just who they wanted to be.

Anyone, therefore, who asked Jesus for help re-ceived it.

He denied no one—but was always careful to see that the help he gave supported a person’s full and honest desire.

If others genuinely sought enlightenment, hon-estly expressing readiness to move to the next level, Jesus gave them the strength, the courage, the wis-dom to do so. He held himself out—and rightly so—as an example and encouraged people, if they could do nothing else, to have faith in him. He would not, he said, lead them astray.

 

Many did put their faith in him—and to this day he helps those who call upon his name. For his soul is committed to waking up those who seek to be fully18 awake and fully alive in Me.

Yet Christ had mercy on those who did not. He therefore rejected self-righteousness and—as does his Father in heaven—made no judgments19, ever.

Jesus’ idea of Perfect Love was to grant all persons exactly the help they requested, after telling them the kind of help they could get.

He never refused to help anyone, and least of all would he do so out of a thought that “you made your bed, now lie in it.”

Jesus knew that if he gave people the help they asked for, rather than merely the help he wanted to give, that he was empowering them at the level at which they were ready to receive empowerment.

This is the way of all great masters. Those who have walked your planet in the past, and those who are walking it now.

 

Now I am confused. When is it disempowering to offer help? When does it work against, rather than for, another’s growth?

 

When your help is offered in such a way that it creates continued dependence20, rather than rapid inde-pendence.

When you allow another, in the name of compas-sion, to begin to rely on you rather than rely on them-selves.

That is not compassion, that is compulsion. You have a power compulsion. Because that sort of helping is really power-tripping. Now this distinction can be very subtle here, and sometimes you don’t even know you are power-tripping. You really believe you are simply doing your best to help another.., yet be careful that you are not simply seeking to create your own self-worth. For to the extent that you allow other per-sons to make you responsible for them, to that extent you have allowed them to make you powerful. And that, of course, makes you feel worthy21.

Yet this kind of help is an aphrodisiac which seduces22 the weak.

The goal is to help the weak grow strong, not to let the weak become weaker.

 

This is the problem with many government assis-tance programs, for they often do the latter, rather than the former. Government programs can be self-per-petuating. Their objective can be every bit as much to justify23 their existence as to help those they are meant to assist.

If there were a limit to all government assistance, people would be helped when they genuinely need help but could not become addicted24 to that help, substituting it for their own self-reliance.

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can get away with—for the more people government helps, the more people help the govern-ment.

Whom the government supports, supports the gov-ernment.

 

Then there should be no redistribution of wealth. The Communist Manifesto is satanic.

 

Of course, there is no Satan, but I understand your meaning.

The idea behind the statement “From each accord-ing to his ability, to each according to his need” is not evil, it is beautiful. It is simply another way of saying you are your brother’s keeper. It is the implementation25 of this beautiful idea that can become ugly.

Sharing must be a way of life, not an edict imposed by government. Sharing should be voluntary, not

forced.

But—here we go again!—at its best, government is the people, and its programs are simply mechanisms26 by which the people share with many others, as a “way of life.” And I would argue that people, collectively through their political systems, have chosen to do so because people have observed, and history has shown, that the “haves” do not share with the “have-nots.”

The Russian peasant could have waited until hell froze over for the Russian nobility to share its wealth—which was usually gained and enlarged through the hard work of peasants. The peasants were given just enough to subsist27 on, as the “incentive” to keep working the land—and make the land barons28 richer. Talk about a dependency relationship! This was an I’ll-help -you-only-if-you-help-me arrangement more exploitive and more obscene than anything ever invented by government!

 

It was this obscenity against which the Russian peasants revolted. A government which ensured that all people were treated equally was born out of the people’s frustration29 that the “haves” would not give to the “have-nots” of their own accord.

It was as Marie Antoinette said of the starving masses clamoring beneath her window in rags, while she lounged in a gold inlaid tub on a bejeweled pedestal, munching30 imported grapes: “Let them eat cake!”

This is the attitude against which the downtrodden have railed. This is the condition causing revolution and creating governments of so-called oppression.

Governments which take from the rich and give to the poor are called oppressive, while governments which do nothing while the rich exploit the poor are repressive.

Ask the peasants of Mexico even today. It is said that twenty or thirty families—the rich and powerful elite—literally run Mexico (principally because they own it!), while twenty or thirty million live in utter deprivation32. So the peasants in 1993-94 undertook a revolt, seeking to force the elitist govern-ment to recognize its duty to help the people provide the means for a life of at least meager33 dignity. There is a difference between elistist governments and governments “of, by, and for the people.”

 

Are not people’s governments created by angry people frustrated34 over the basic selfishness of human nature? Are not government programs created as a remedy for man’s unwill-ingness to provide a remedy himself?

Is this not the genesis of fair housing laws, child labor35 statutes36, support programs for mothers with dependent children?

Wasn’t Social Security government’s attempt to provide for older people something that their own families would not or could not provide?

How do we reconcile our hatred37 of government control with our tack38 of willingness to do anything we don’t have to do when there are no controls?

 

It is said that some coal miners worked under horrible conditions before governments required the filthy39 rich mine owners to clean up their filthy mines. Why didn’t the owners do so themselves? Because it would have cut into their profits! And the rich didn’t care how many of the poor died in unsafe mines to keep the profits flowing—and growing.

Businesses paid slave wages to beginning workers before governments imposed minimum wage requirements. Those who favor going back to the “good old days” say, “So what? They provided jobs, didn’t they? And who’s taking the risk, anyway? The worker? No! The investor40, the owner, takes all the risks! So to him should go the biggest reward!”

Anyone who thinks that the workers on whose labors41 the owners depend should be treated with dignity is called a communist.

Anyone who thinks that a person should not be denied housing because of skin color is called a socialist3.

Anyone who thinks that a woman should not be denied employment opportunities or promotion42 simply because she’s the wrong sex is called a radical43 feminist44.

And when governments, through their elected repre-sentatives, move to solve these problems that people of power in society steadfastly45 refuse to solve themselves, those govern-ments are called oppressive! (Never by the people they help, incidentally. Only by the people who refuse to provide the help themselves.)

 

Nowhere is this more evident than in health care. In 1992 an American President and his wife decided it was unfair and inappropriate for millions of Americans to have no access to preventative health care; that notion started a health care debate which catapulted even the medical profession and the insurance industry into the fray46.

The real question is not whose solution was better: the plan proposed by the Administration or the plan proposed by private industry. The real question is: Why didn’t private industry propose its own solution long ago?

I’ll tell you why. Because it didn’t have to. No one was complaining. And the industry was driven by profits.

Profits, profits, profits.

My point, therefore, is this. We can rail and cry and com-plain all we want. The plain truth is, governments provide solutions when the private sector47 won’t.

We can also claim that governments are doing what they are doing against the wishes of the people, but so long as people control the government—as they do to a large extent in the United States—the government will continue to pro-duce and require solutions to social ills because the majority of the people are not rich and powerful, and therefore legislate48 for themselves what society will not give them voluntarily.

Only in countries where the majority of the people do not control the government does government do little or nothing about inequities.

So, then, the problem: How much government is too much government? And how much is too little? And where and how do we strike the balance?

 

Whew! I’ve never seen you go on like this! That’s as long as you’ve held the floor in either of our two books.

 

Well, you said this book was going to address some of the larger, global problems facing the family of man. I think I’ve laid out a big one.

 

Eloquently49, yes. Everyone from Toynbee to Jefferson to Marx has been trying to solve it for hundreds of years.

 

Okay—What’s Your solution?

 

We are going to have to go backwards50 here; we are going to have to go over some old ground.

 

Go ahead. Maybe I need to hear it twice.

 

Then we’ll start with the fact that I have no “solu-tion.” And that is because I see none of this as problem-atical. It just is what it is, and I have no preferences regarding that. I am merely describing here what is observable; what anyone can plainly see.

 

Okay, You have no solution and You have no preference. Can You offer me an observation?

 

I observe that the world has yet to come up with a system of government which provides a total solu-tion—although the government in the United States has come the closest so far.

The difficulty is that goodness and fairness are moral issues, not political ones.

Government is the human attempt to mandate51 good-ness and ensure fairness. Yet there is only one place where goodness is born, and that is in the human heart. There is only one place where fairness can be conceptualized, and that is in the human mind. There is only one place where love can be experienced truly, and that is in the human soul. Because the human soul is love.

You cannot legislate morality. You cannot pass a law saying “love each other.”

We are now going around in circles, as we have covered all of this before. Still, the discussion is good, so keep plugging away at it. Even if we cover the same ground twice or three times, that is okay. The attempt here is to get to the bottom of it; see how you want to create it now.

 

Well then, I’ll ask the same question I asked before. Aren’t all laws simply man’s attempt to codify53 moral concepts? Is not “legislation” simply our combined agreement as to what is “right” and “wrong”?

 

Yes. And certain civil laws—rules and regula-tions—are required in your primitive54 society. (You un-derstand that in nonprimitive societies such laws are unnecessary. All beings regulate themselves.) In your society, you are still confronted with some very elemen-tary questions. Shall you stop at the street corner before proceeding55? Shall you buy and sell according to certain terms? Will there be any restrictions56 on how you behave with one another?

But truly, even these basic laws—prohibitions against murdering, damaging, cheating, or even run-ning a red light—shouldn’t be needed and wouldn’t be needed if all people everywhere simply followed the Laws of Love.

That is, God’s Law.

What is needed is a growth in consciousness, not a growth of government.

 

You mean if we just followed the Ten Commandments we’d be all right!

 

There’s no such thing as the Ten Commandments. (See Book 1 for a complete discussion of this.) God’s Law is No Law. This is something you cannot under-stand.

I require nothing.

 

Many people cannot believe Your last statement.

 

Have them read Book 1. It completely explains this.

 

Is that what You are suggesting for this world? Complete anarchy57?

 

Iam suggesting nothing. lam merely observing what works. I am telling you what is observably so. And no, I do not observe that anarchy—the absence of govern-ance, rules, regulations, or limitations of any kind—would work. Such an arrangement is only prac-tical with advanced beings, which I do not observe human beings to be.

So some level of governance is going to be required until your race evolves to the point where you naturally do what is naturally right.

You are very wise to govern yourselves in the in-terim. The points you made a moment ago are salient, unassailable. People often do not do what is “right” when left to their own devices.

The real question is not why do governments im-pose so many rules and regulations on the people, but why do governments have to?

The answer has to do with your Separation Con-sciousness.

 

The fact that we see ourselves as separate from each other.

 

Yes.

 

But if we aren’t separate, then we are One. And doesn’t that mean we are responsible for each other?

 

Yes.

 

But doesn’t that disempower us from achieving individual greatness? If I am responsible for all others, then the Commu-nist Manifesto was right! “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

 

That is, as I’ve already said, a very noble idea. But it is robbed of its nobility when it is ruthlessly enforced.

That was the difficulty with communism. Not the con-cept, but its implementation.

 

There are those who say that the concept had to be forced because the concept violates the basic nature of man.

 

You’ve hit the nail on the head. What needs to be changed is the basic nature of man. That’s where the work must be done.

 

To create the consciousness shift of which You’ve spoken.

 

Yes.

 

But we’re going around in circles again. Would not a group consciousness cause individuals to be disempowered?

 

Let’s look at it. If every person on the planet had basic needs met—if the mass of the people could live in dignity and escape the struggle of simple sur-vival—would this not open the way for all of humankind to engage in more noble pursuits?

Would individual greatness really be suppressed if individual survival were guaranteed?

Must universal dignity be sacrificed to individual glory?

What kind of glory is obtained when it is achieved at the expense of another?

I have placed more than sufficient resources on your planet to ensure adequate supplies for all. How can it be that thousands starve to death each year? That hundreds go homeless? That millions cry out for simple dignity?

The kind of help that would end this is not the kind of help which disempowers.

If your well-off say they do not want to help the starving and the homeless because they do not want to disempower them, then your well-off are hypocrites. For no one is truly “well off” if they are well off while others are dying.

The evolution of a society is measured by how well it treats the least among its members. As I have said, the challenge is to find the balance between helping people and hurting them.

 

Any guidelines You can offer?

 

An overall guideline might be this: When in doubt, always err2 on the side of compassion.

The test of whether you are helping or hurting: Are your fellow humans enlarged or reduced as a result of your help? Have you made them bigger or smaller? More able or less able?

 

It has been said that if you give everything to individuals, they will be less willing to work for it themselves.

 

Yet why should they have to work for the simplest dignity? Is there not enough for all? Why should “work-ing for it” have to do with anything?

Isn’t basic human dignity the birthright of every-one? Oughtn’t it be?

If one seeks more than minimum levels—more food, bigger shelters, finer coverings for the body—one can seek to achieve those goals. But ought one have to struggle to even survive—on a planet where there is more than enough for everyone?

That is the central question facing humankind.

The challenge is not to make everyone equal, but to give everyone at least the assurance of basic survival with dignity, so that each may then have the chance to choose what more they want from there.

 

There are those who argue that some don’t take that chance even when it is given them.

 

And they observe correctly. This raises yet another question: to those who don’t take the opportunities pre-sented to them, do you owe another chance, and another?

 

No.

 

If I took that attitude, you would be lost to hell forever.

 

I tell you this: Compassion never ends, love never stops, patience never runs out in God’s World. Only in the world of man is goodness limited.

In My World, goodness is endless.

 

Even if we don’t deserve it.

 

You always deserve it!

 

Even if we throw Your goodness back in Your face?

 

Especially if you do (“If a man slaps you on the right cheek, turn and offer him your left. And if a man asks you to go one mile with him, go with him twain.”) When you throw My goodness back in My face (which, by the way, the human race has done to God for millennia), I see that you are merely mistaken. You do not know what is in your best interest. I have compas-sion because your mistake is based not in evil, but in ignorance.

 

But some people are basically evil. Some people are intrin-sically bad.

 

Who told you that?

 

It is my own observation.

 

Then you cannot see straight. I have said it to you before: No one does anything evil, given his model of the world.

Put another way, all are doing the best they can at any given moment.

All actions of everyone depend on the data at hand.

I have said before—consciousness is everything. Of what are you aware? What do you know?

 

But when people attack us, hurt us, damage us, even kill us for their own ends, is that not evil?

 

I have told you before: all attack is a call for help.

No one truly desires to hurt another. Those who do it—including your own governments, by the way—do it out of a misplaced idea that it is the only way to get something they want.

I’ve already outlined in this book the higher solution to this problem. Simply want nothing. Have prefer-ences, but no needs.

Yet this is a very high state of being; it is the place of Masters.

In terms of geopolitics, why not work together as a world to meet the most basic needs of everyone?

 

We’re doing that—or trying.

 

After all these thousands of years of human history, that’s the most you can say?

The fact is, you have barely evolved at all. You still operate in a primitive “every man for himself” mentality59.

You plunder60 the Earth, rape31 her of her resources, exploit her people, and systematically61 disenfranchise those who disagree with you for doing all of this, calling them the “radicals.”

You do all this for your own selfish purposes, be-cause you’ve developed a lifestyle that you cannot maintain any other way.

You must cut down millions of acres of trees each year or you won’t be able to have your Sunday paper. You must destroy miles of the protective ozone62 which covers your planet, or you cannot have your hairspray. You must pollute your rivers and streams beyond repair or you cannot have your industries to give you Bigger, Better, and More. And you must exploit the least among you—the least advantaged, the least educated, the least aware—or you can not live at the top of the human scale in unheard-of (and unnecessary) luxury. Finally, you must deny that you are doing this, or you cannot live with yourself.

 

You cannot find it in your heart to “live simply, so that others may simply live.” That bumper63 sticker wisdom is too simple for you. It is too much to ask. Too much to give. After all, you’ve worked so hard for what you’ve got! You ain’t giving up none of it! And if the rest of the human race—to say nothing of your own children’s children—have to suffer for it, tough bananas, right? You did what you had to do to survive, to “make it”—they can do the same! After all, it is every man for himself, is it not?

 

Is there any way out of this mess?

 

Yes. Shall I say it again? A shift of consciousness.

You cannot solve the problems which plague hu-mankind through governmental action or by political means. You have been trying that for thousands of years.

The change that must be made can be made only in the hearts of men.

 

Can You put the change that must be made into one sen-tence?

 

I already have several times.

You must stop seeing Cod52 as separate from you, and you as separate from each other.

The only solution is the Ultimate Truth: nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably inter-dependent, interactive64, interwoven into the fabric65 of all of life.

All government, all politics, must be based on this truth. All laws must be rooted in it.

This is the future hope of your race; the only hope for your planet.

 

How does the Law of Love You spoke58 of earlier work?

 

Love gives all and requires nothing.

 

How can we require nothing?

 

If everyone in your race gave all, what would you require? The only reason you require anything is be-cause someone else is holding back. Stop holding back!

 

This could not work unless we all did it at once.

 

Indeed, a global consciousness is what is required. Yet, how will that come about? Somebody has to start.

The opportunity is here for you.

You can be the source of this New Consciousness.

You can be the inspiration.

Indeed, you must be.

 

I must?

 

Who else is there?


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n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
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  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
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vi.犯错误,出差错
参考例句:
  • He did not err by a hair's breadth in his calculation.他的计算结果一丝不差。
  • The arrows err not from their aim.箭无虚发。
3 socialist jwcws     
n.社会主义者;adj.社会主义的
参考例句:
  • China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家,也是一个发展中国家。
  • His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。
4 manifesto P7wzt     
n.宣言,声明
参考例句:
  • I was involved in the preparation of Labour's manifesto.我参与了工党宣言的起草工作。
  • His manifesto promised measures to protect them.他在宣言里保证要为他们采取保护措施。
5 arrogant Jvwz5     
adj.傲慢的,自大的
参考例句:
  • You've got to get rid of your arrogant ways.你这骄傲劲儿得好好改改。
  • People are waking up that he is arrogant.人们开始认识到他很傲慢。
6 judgment e3xxC     
n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见
参考例句:
  • The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
  • He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。
7 relevance gVAxg     
n.中肯,适当,关联,相关性
参考例句:
  • Politicians' private lives have no relevance to their public roles.政治家的私生活与他们的公众角色不相关。
  • Her ideas have lost all relevance to the modern world.她的想法与现代社会完全脱节。
8 constraints d178923285d63e9968956a0a4758267e     
强制( constraint的名词复数 ); 限制; 约束
参考例句:
  • Data and constraints can easily be changed to test theories. 信息库中的数据和限制条件可以轻易地改变以检验假设。 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史
  • What are the constraints that each of these imply for any design? 这每种产品的要求和约束对于设计意味着什么? 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
9 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
10 awareness 4yWzdW     
n.意识,觉悟,懂事,明智
参考例句:
  • There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
  • Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
11 amnesia lwLzy     
n.健忘症,健忘
参考例句:
  • People suffering from amnesia don't forget their general knowledge of objects.患健忘症的人不会忘记关于物体的一些基本知识。
  • Chinese medicine experts developed a way to treat amnesia using marine materials.中国医学专家研制出用海洋物质治疗遗忘症的方法。
12 paradigm c48zJ     
n.例子,模范,词形变化表
参考例句:
  • He had become the paradigm of the successful man. 他已经成为成功人士的典范。
  • Moreover,the results of this research can be the new learning paradigm for digital design studios.除此之外,本研究的研究成果也可以为数位设计课程建立一个新的学习范例。
13 succor rFLyJ     
n.援助,帮助;v.给予帮助
参考例句:
  • In two short hours we may look for succor from Webb.在短短的两小时内,韦布将军的救兵就可望到达。
  • He was so much in need of succor,so totally alone.他当时孑然一身,形影相吊,特别需要援助。
14 compassion 3q2zZ     
n.同情,怜悯
参考例句:
  • He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
  • Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。
15 intervention e5sxZ     
n.介入,干涉,干预
参考例句:
  • The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
  • Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。
16 agonize mxxz6     
v.使受苦,使苦闷
参考例句:
  • Why do you agonize yourself with the thought of your failure?你为何总是对于你的失败念念不忘而自我折磨呢?
  • There's no reason to agonize over telling people you're job hunting.没有理由为告诉他人你正在找工作而感到苦恼。
17 assessment vO7yu     
n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
参考例句:
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
18 fully Gfuzd     
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
参考例句:
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
19 judgments 2a483d435ecb48acb69a6f4c4dd1a836     
判断( judgment的名词复数 ); 鉴定; 评价; 审判
参考例句:
  • A peculiar austerity marked his judgments of modern life. 他对现代生活的批评带着一种特殊的苛刻。
  • He is swift with his judgments. 他判断迅速。
20 dependence 3wsx9     
n.依靠,依赖;信任,信赖;隶属
参考例句:
  • Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
  • He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。
21 worthy vftwB     
adj.(of)值得的,配得上的;有价值的
参考例句:
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。
22 seduces 1841804c061e6f1890f1c7703f2d1bb3     
诱奸( seduce的第三人称单数 ); 勾引; 诱使堕落; 使入迷
参考例句:
  • The city seduces visitors with its natural beauty. 这个城市以其自然美吸引着游客。
  • Dilettante: a philanderer who seduces the several arts and letters each in turn for another. 业余艺术爱好者——是轮流引诱文学与艺术的不专一者。
23 justify j3DxR     
vt.证明…正当(或有理),为…辩护
参考例句:
  • He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses.他想用站不住脚的借口为自己的缺席辩解。
  • Can you justify your rude behavior to me?你能向我证明你的粗野行为是有道理的吗?
24 addicted dzizmY     
adj.沉溺于....的,对...上瘾的
参考例句:
  • He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。
  • She's become addicted to love stories.她迷上了爱情小说。
25 implementation 2awxV     
n.实施,贯彻
参考例句:
  • Implementation of the program is now well underway.这一项目的实施现在行情看好。
26 mechanisms d0db71d70348ef1c49f05f59097917b8     
n.机械( mechanism的名词复数 );机械装置;[生物学] 机制;机械作用
参考例句:
  • The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms. 这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He explained how the two mechanisms worked. 他解释这两台机械装置是如何工作的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
27 subsist rsYwy     
vi.生存,存在,供养
参考例句:
  • We are unable to subsist without air and water.没有空气和水我们就活不下去。
  • He could subsist on bark and grass roots in the isolated island.在荒岛上他只能靠树皮和草根维持生命。
28 barons d288a7d0097bc7a8a6a4398b999b01f6     
男爵( baron的名词复数 ); 巨头; 大王; 大亨
参考例句:
  • The barons of Normandy had refused to countenance the enterprise officially. 诺曼底的贵族们拒绝正式赞助这桩买卖。
  • The barons took the oath which Stephen Langton prescribed. 男爵们照斯蒂芬?兰顿的指导宣了誓。
29 frustration 4hTxj     
n.挫折,失败,失效,落空
参考例句:
  • He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
  • He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
30 munching 3bbbb661207569e6c6cb6a1390d74d06     
v.用力咀嚼(某物),大嚼( munch的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • He was munching an apple. 他在津津有味地嚼着苹果。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Munching the apple as he was, he had an eye for all her movements. 他虽然啃着苹果,但却很留神地监视着她的每一个动作。 来自辞典例句
31 rape PAQzh     
n.抢夺,掠夺,强奸;vt.掠夺,抢夺,强奸
参考例句:
  • The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
  • He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
32 deprivation e9Uy7     
n.匮乏;丧失;夺去,贫困
参考例句:
  • Many studies make it clear that sleep deprivation is dangerous.多实验都证实了睡眠被剥夺是危险的。
  • Missing the holiday was a great deprivation.错过假日是极大的损失。
33 meager zB5xZ     
adj.缺乏的,不足的,瘦的
参考例句:
  • He could not support his family on his meager salary.他靠微薄的工资无法养家。
  • The two men and the woman grouped about the fire and began their meager meal.两个男人同一个女人围着火,开始吃起少得可怜的午饭。
34 frustrated ksWz5t     
adj.挫败的,失意的,泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 );挫败;使受挫折;令人沮丧
参考例句:
  • It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
  • The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》
35 labor P9Tzs     
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
参考例句:
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
36 statutes 2e67695e587bd14afa1655b870b4c16e     
成文法( statute的名词复数 ); 法令; 法规; 章程
参考例句:
  • The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
  • Each agency is also restricted by the particular statutes governing its activities. 各个机构的行为也受具体法令限制。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
37 hatred T5Gyg     
n.憎恶,憎恨,仇恨
参考例句:
  • He looked at me with hatred in his eyes.他以憎恨的眼光望着我。
  • The old man was seized with burning hatred for the fascists.老人对法西斯主义者充满了仇恨。
38 tack Jq1yb     
n.大头钉;假缝,粗缝
参考例句:
  • He is hammering a tack into the wall to hang a picture.他正往墙上钉一枚平头钉用来挂画。
  • We are going to tack the map on the wall.我们打算把这张地图钉在墙上。
39 filthy ZgOzj     
adj.卑劣的;恶劣的,肮脏的
参考例句:
  • The whole river has been fouled up with filthy waste from factories.整条河都被工厂的污秽废物污染了。
  • You really should throw out that filthy old sofa and get a new one.你真的应该扔掉那张肮脏的旧沙发,然后再去买张新的。
40 investor aq4zNm     
n.投资者,投资人
参考例句:
  • My nephew is a cautious investor.我侄子是个小心谨慎的投资者。
  • The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.这个投资者相信他的投资不久会有相当大的收益。
41 labors 8e0b4ddc7de5679605be19f4398395e1     
v.努力争取(for)( labor的第三人称单数 );苦干;详细分析;(指引擎)缓慢而困难地运转
参考例句:
  • He was tiresome in contending for the value of his own labors. 他老为他自己劳动的价值而争强斗胜,令人生厌。 来自辞典例句
  • Farm labors used to hire themselves out for the summer. 农业劳动者夏季常去当雇工。 来自辞典例句
42 promotion eRLxn     
n.提升,晋级;促销,宣传
参考例句:
  • The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
  • The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级,加了薪。
43 radical hA8zu     
n.激进份子,原子团,根号;adj.根本的,激进的,彻底的
参考例句:
  • The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
  • She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
44 feminist mliyh     
adj.主张男女平等的,女权主义的
参考例句:
  • She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
  • From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起,男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。
45 steadfastly xhKzcv     
adv.踏实地,不变地;岿然;坚定不渝
参考例句:
  • So he sat, with a steadfastly vacant gaze, pausing in his work. 他就像这样坐着,停止了工作,直勾勾地瞪着眼。 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
  • Defarge and his wife looked steadfastly at one another. 德伐日和他的妻子彼此凝视了一会儿。 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
46 fray NfDzp     
v.争吵;打斗;磨损,磨破;n.吵架;打斗
参考例句:
  • Why should you get involved in their fray?你为什么要介入他们的争吵呢?
  • Tempers began to fray in the hot weather.大热天脾气烦燥。
47 sector yjczYn     
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
参考例句:
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
48 legislate 090zF     
vt.制定法律;n.法规,律例;立法
参考例句:
  • Therefore,it is very urgent to legislate for the right of privacy.因此,为隐私权立法刻不容缓。
  • It's impossible to legislate for every contingency.为每一偶发事件都立法是不可能的。
49 eloquently eloquently     
adv. 雄辩地(有口才地, 富于表情地)
参考例句:
  • I was toasted by him most eloquently at the dinner. 进餐时他口若悬河地向我祝酒。
  • The poet eloquently expresses the sense of lost innocence. 诗人动人地表达了失去天真的感觉。
50 backwards BP9ya     
adv.往回地,向原处,倒,相反,前后倒置地
参考例句:
  • He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
  • All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。
51 mandate sj9yz     
n.托管地;命令,指示
参考例句:
  • The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
  • The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。
52 cod nwizOF     
n.鳕鱼;v.愚弄;哄骗
参考例句:
  • They salt down cod for winter use.他们腌鳕鱼留着冬天吃。
  • Cod are found in the North Atlantic and the North Sea.北大西洋和北海有鳕鱼。
53 codify 8bxy2     
v.将法律、法规等编成法典
参考例句:
  • The noble,Dracon,was asked to codify the laws.贵族德拉古被选为立法者。
  • The new government promised to codify the laws.新政府应允要编纂法典。
54 primitive vSwz0     
adj.原始的;简单的;n.原(始)人,原始事物
参考例句:
  • It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。
  • His book describes the march of the civilization of a primitive society.他的著作描述了一个原始社会的开化过程。
55 proceeding Vktzvu     
n.行动,进行,(pl.)会议录,学报
参考例句:
  • This train is now proceeding from Paris to London.这次列车从巴黎开往伦敦。
  • The work is proceeding briskly.工作很有生气地进展着。
56 restrictions 81e12dac658cfd4c590486dd6f7523cf     
约束( restriction的名词复数 ); 管制; 制约因素; 带限制性的条件(或规则)
参考例句:
  • I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
  • a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
57 anarchy 9wYzj     
n.无政府状态;社会秩序混乱,无秩序
参考例句:
  • There would be anarchy if we had no police.要是没有警察,社会就会无法无天。
  • The country was thrown into a state of anarchy.这国家那时一下子陷入无政府状态。
58 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
59 mentality PoIzHP     
n.心理,思想,脑力
参考例句:
  • He has many years'experience of the criminal mentality.他研究犯罪心理有多年经验。
  • Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee.经营企业所要求具备的心态和上班族的心态截然不同。
60 plunder q2IzO     
vt.劫掠财物,掠夺;n.劫掠物,赃物;劫掠
参考例句:
  • The thieves hid their plunder in the cave.贼把赃物藏在山洞里。
  • Trade should not serve as a means of economic plunder.贸易不应当成为经济掠夺的手段。
61 systematically 7qhwn     
adv.有系统地
参考例句:
  • This government has systematically run down public services since it took office.这一屆政府自上台以来系统地削减了公共服务。
  • The rainforest is being systematically destroyed.雨林正被系统地毀灭。
62 ozone omQzBE     
n.臭氧,新鲜空气
参考例句:
  • The ozone layer is a protective layer around the planet Earth.臭氧层是地球的保护层。
  • The capacity of ozone can adjust according of requirement.臭氧的产量可根据需要或调节。
63 bumper jssz8     
n.(汽车上的)保险杠;adj.特大的,丰盛的
参考例句:
  • The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
  • This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。
64 interactive KqZzFY     
adj.相互作用的,互相影响的,(电脑)交互的
参考例句:
  • The psychotherapy is carried out in small interactive groups.这种心理治疗是在互动的小组之间进行的。
  • This will make videogames more interactive than ever.这将使电子游戏的互动性更胜以往。
65 fabric 3hezG     
n.织物,织品,布;构造,结构,组织
参考例句:
  • The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
  • I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。


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