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Lincoln's political genius stood on two pillars: he possessed an uncanny awareness of what could be done at any given moment, and he had the ability to change his mind, to adapt to circumstances, to grow. This is Lincoln in 1838, addressing the Springfield Young Men's Lyceum on a citizen's obligations to the legal system with such lines as,"Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap."

林肯的政治才华有两个重要方面：他能令人不可思议地知道在任何特定的时刻什么可以做，还有他的改变自己的观念以适应环境和事态发展的能力。1838年林肯在春田市青年讲堂演讲关于公民对法律制度的责任时就用了象这样的词语&使对法律的尊重通过每一位美国母亲表现出来，影响到坐在她们膝上咿呀学语的孩子。&

UT vErs家长讲堂 To be with you helps me do better in both my career and my life.

你们对我的职业和生活帮助非常多。

But what surprised me most was to see at the back of the room, on the benches which were usually empty, some people from the village sitting, as silent as we were: old Hauser with his three-cornered hat, the ex-mayor, the ex-postman, and others besides.

但是，最使我吃惊的是，看到讲堂面，那些大凡空着的凳子上，坐着少许跟我们相同默不做声的村里的人，有头戴三角帽的奥泽尔白叟，有前任镇长，有曩昔的邮递员，别的还有别的人。

TLing said they met a venerable who is from Malaysia; he is Master Ji Ru, one of the disciples of Ven. Zhu Mo . He built a temple called Mid-America Buddhist Association just outside of St. Louis.

TLing 告诉我们，有位法师是马来西亚人，即三慧讲堂竺摩长老的徒弟在这儿创办中美佛教会，他是继如法师。

Most of us in the trolley or on the road don't know one another, so no one wears a mask, not like in class, parties, or government, people just dying for smoothing around, and around.

电车上和道路上的人们彼此多半是不相识的，所以大家都不大拿出假面孔来，比不得讲堂里，宴会上，衙门里的人们那样彼此拼命地一味敷衍。

At one time some cock-chafers flew in; but no one paid any attention to them, not even the little fellows who were struggling with their straight lines, with a will and conscientious application, as if even the lines were French. On the roof of the schoolhouse, pigeons cooed in low tones, and I said to myself as I listened to them:"I wonder if they are going to compel them to sing in German too!"

有一回，几只金龟子跑进了讲堂，但是谁也不去留神它们，比春秋最小的也不例外，他们正潜心致志地练直杠笔划，仿佛这些笔划也是法语……黉舍的屋顶上，鸽子低声地咕咕地叫着，我一壁听，一壁深思：&他们该不会逼迫这些鸽子用德语唱歌吧？&

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。