And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
If you time travel to the 1880s, you'd be struck by the clothing, not least because people somehow managed to stay cool or at least survive under all those layers.
They can be questions of clarification or they can be challenges, if you want to challenge this idea that only the motive of duty confers moral worth on the action.
He's attributed with saying that if he had asked people, at the time when he was inventing the Model T, if they wanted something like that, they would have said they wanted faster horses instead of this new invention.
他说在他发明福特 T 型车的时候询问别是否要这样的车子,他们会回答宁愿要更快一些的马,而不是什么新的发明。
Of course the truck was a thousand times bigger than any of the mice who were to draw it; but when all the mice had been harnessed, they were able to pull it quite easily.