I try to tell myself that sometimes our better angels prevail.

我试图告诉自己，有时善良的天使会获胜。

To use television to illuminate the transcendent power of our better angels. So, this Angel Network.

利用电视媒体彰显我们更好的天使的超凡力量因此 对于天使网络而言。

Mr. Pinker's best-known previous book, " The Better Angels of Our Nature" , showed that humankind has grown less violent.

平克在他最知名的上一本著作《人性中的良善天使》（ The Better Angels of Our Nature）中论证了人类已不像从前那么暴力。

O Hester, thou art my better angel!

海丝特啊，你是我更好的天使！

It's a constant battle that rages within all of us between the better angels of our nature and the temptation of our inner demons.

我们每个人的愤怒是一场持久战，在我们本性好的一面和我们内心深处的黑暗面。

He said also that it's a constant battle between the better angels of our nature and our darkest impulses, and what presidents say in this battle matters.

他还表示，这是我们天性中更好的天使和我们最黑暗的冲动之间的一场持续战斗，而总统在这场战斗中的决定至关重要。

'Father, I always knew it. In this strife I have almost repulsed and crushed my better angel into a demon.

父亲，我一直都知道。在这场斗争中，我几乎击退了我的好天使，并将其压成了恶魔。

To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride.

为使我早日跨进绝望的地狱，邪恶阴柔骗走了我善性的阳刚，她还使我的好精灵化作魔鬼，用脏污的肉欲使其纯真沦为荒唐。

The second myth claims that human beings may have by and large been violent and aggressive in the past, but we have evolved since then to become more compassionate, enlightened, and led by our better angels.

第二个误解声称，人类在过去可能总体上是暴力和好斗的，但从那时起，我们已经进化得更富有同情心、更开明，并被我们更好的仁慈心所领导。

Many Christians don’t believe in heaven and hell, or even the devil, but might talk about the better angels of our nature and being led astray by our self-destructive vices.

许多基督徒不相信天堂和地狱， 甚至不相信魔鬼，但可能会谈论我们本性中善良的天使， 以及被我们自我毁灭的恶习引入歧途。

And that there's an army's worth of better angels -- scientists, educators, doctors, nurses, public health advocates who, since that eerie image of the spiky coronavirus started haunting our collective dreams, have been working tirelessly toward a happy ending.

而我们有一大群善良的天使--科学家、教育者、医生、护理师、公共卫生专家自从新冠病毒那个多棘的恐怖形象开始成为我们的集体梦魇之后，这些人就一直努力不懈地工作，想要创造一个美好结局。

So we have ugly periods, but in those same periods of ugliness, we've had leaders — not just Presidents, leaders — who grasp the better angels, and pull us into a better place.

所以我们有丑陋的时期，但在同样的丑陋时期，我们有领导人——不仅仅是总统、领导人——他们抓住了更好的天使，把我们带入一个更好的地方。