Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

招待客人多的女招待必须像部长们组成内阁一样组成他们的派对,而不是出于个人喜好。

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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

广告促进了贸易的精神方面。这是伟大的力量,已委托给您保持,这使您肩负起鼓舞和崇高的商业世界的崇高责任。这都是人类复兴和救赎的伟大工作的一部分。

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

当一位因说谎而被解职的内阁部长在每次制宪会议上都被重新任命时,同样的人却因为同样的罪行被同一位首相从同一内阁中再次解职,难怪公众对政治如此愤世嫉俗。

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.

我总是说,你可以用同一辆车,虽然司机会换,或同一辆车去比赛。这是一个不同的驱动,这正是发生在内阁。

Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.

部长们定期会见从作战旅行归来的士兵,听取他们的经历,包括那些从伤病中恢复过来的士兵。