Statesman Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good men and women to do nothing.”

英国政治家埃德蒙·伯克说过：“恶势力要想取胜很容易，只要足够多的善良的男人和女人们什么都不做就可以了。”

Among these pillars of English literature were Jonathan Swift, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Edmund Burke.

在这些英语文学的巨擘中有乔纳森‧斯威夫特、威廉‧巴特勒‧叶芝、詹姆士‧乔伊斯、塞缪尔‧贝克特、奥斯卡‧王尔德、乔治‧萧伯纳以及埃德蒙‧伯克。

Edmund Burke (1727-1797), English statesman and orator.

Edmund Burke (1727-1797)，英国政治家和演说家。

Or was he more naturally one of the sophisters, economists and calculators whose rise marked, for Edmund Burke, the passing of the age of chivalry?

还是说，以天生秉性而言，他更应当被看成是一个辩论大师、经济学家又兼计算高手，当初此等人物的出现曾被埃德蒙·伯克认为标志了骑士时代的终结？

Because as Edmund Burke, the historian, said, we have to have a contract between generations.

因为正如历史学家埃德蒙伯克所说，我们必须在几代人之间建立契约。

The author begins his article with Edmund Burke's words to call on scientists to take some actions.

作者以埃德蒙·伯克的话开始他的文章，呼吁科学家们采取一些行动。

In England, Edmund Burke led the fight against the new French principles which he feared might spread to all Europe.

——在英格兰，埃德蒙·伯克领导了反对法国新原则的斗争， 他担心这些原则可能会传播到整个欧洲。

Pitt and Edmund Burke, the former near the close of his career, the latter just beginning his, argued cogently in favor of retracing the steps taken the year before.

皮特和埃德蒙伯克， 前者接近他的职业生涯的尾声，后者刚刚开始他的职业生涯， 他们有说服力地争论支持回顾前一年采取的步骤。

Edmund Burke leveled his heavy batteries against every measure of coercion and at last strove for a peace which, while giving independence to America, would work for reconciliation rather than estrangement.

埃德蒙·伯克 (Edmund Burke) 举起重炮抵御一切胁迫措施，并最终争取和平，在赋予美国独立的同时，这将有助于和解而不是疏远。

The British statesman Edmund Burke had pronounced before Parliament that these people on Nantucket epitomized what the colonies were all about, that no one could compare to their economic wherewithal, their energy, and their inventiveness.

英国政治家埃德蒙·伯克（Edmund Burke）在议会上宣称，楠塔基特岛的这些人代表了殖民地的全部特征，没有人可以与他们的经济实力、精力和创造力相比。

If any one is bewildered by the controversies of modern historians as to why the crisis came at last, he can clarify his understanding by reading again Edmund Burke's stately oration, On Conciliation with America.

如果有人对现代历史学家关于危机为何最终到来的争论感到困惑，他可以通过再次阅读埃德蒙·伯克 (Edmund Burke) 庄严的演说《与美国的和解》来澄清自己的理解。

The flooding tide of American sentiment was correctly measured by one Englishman at least, Edmund Burke, who quickly saw that attempts to restrain the rise of American democracy were efforts to reverse the processes of nature.

——至少一位英国人埃德蒙·伯克（Edmund Burke）正确地衡量了美国情绪的泛滥，他很快就看到，限制美国民主兴起的努力是逆转自然进程的努力。