危言

A Person in the low place comes to realize the danger when ascending a height ; A man in the darkness comes to know the dazzle when exposed to the bright; A person of tranquility only becomes aware of the toil when put to the trial of movement; A man of silence only comes to understand the impatience when met with a babbler .

居卑而后知登高之为危，处晦而后知向明之太霭，守静而后知好动之过劳，养默而后知多言之为躁。今译：处在低矮的地方，才知道攀登高处的危险；在昏暗的地方，才知道当初的光亮会刺眼睛；持有宁静的心情，才知道四处奔波的辛苦；保持沉默的心性，才知道过多的言语会带来烦躁不安。

The social consciousness of honesty which ever valued mutual honesty, mutual respect and promise-keeping was distorted, and the concept of social honesty became hazy because it no longer had the efficacy in *** people "know to believe" intrinsically, and "speak to act" extrinsically. So it led to the mental disorder of the social honesty among the common people who suffered from mentality of doubt, group following-like-sheep mentality, and mentality of dual personality. Therefore they abandoned the expectation of social honesty, stayed away from social honesty mentally and behaviorally and had a cold complex towards social honesty in mind. The social honesty in the whole society became fragile as empty sermon, mendacious demonstration and open lies turned into the fashion of the society.

以彼此真诚相待、互相尊重、信守承诺为内在规约的诚信意识淡漠扭曲；诚信观念则背离了正直老实、互信合作与公平负责的内在本性，丧失了其内化为&知而信&，外化为&言而行&的功效，变得模糊混沌，从而导致民众的诚信心理普遍发生错位，异化为自危的怀疑心理、群体的从众心理与双重人格心理，使人们放弃了对诚信的期求，从心理上和行为上阔别诚信，形成诚信冷漠情结，整个社会的诚信变得易碎和脆弱，空洞的说教、虚假的论证和公然的谎言成为了社会时尚。

I go back, for example, to reading Plutarch. He reminds you that even in the golden days of Greece and Rome, from which so much that is splendid in our own civilization derives, there was a great deal of what we find so loathsome in life today: war, strife, corruption, treason, double-crossing, intolerance, tyranny, rabble-rousing.

例如，我重读普卢塔克的《希腊罗马名人比较列传》，从中可以看出，战乱动荡、**苛政并非当世之灾，背信弃义、危言惑世亦非时人之弊；即使在我们辉煌文明之源的古希腊古罗马黄金时代，这些灾祸也无法避免。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷