I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

  • -- George Washington 乔治华盛顿

我走在人迹罕至的土地上。在我的行为中,几乎没有哪一部分可以不成为今后的先例。

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When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

当戏剧达到了一种人物塑造,使戏剧成为人类行为的一种启示,一种对话,使戏剧成为一种个性鲜明而又自得其乐的语言时,我们就达到了戏剧文学的境界。

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

过去是如此武断地作为现在的先例提出的,它本身是建立在它之前的一些过去的基础上的。

My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.

我的目标是成为世界上无可争议的重量级冠军。

I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.

我不是满眼星斗,也不是金钱狂。

A precedent embalms a principle.

先例使原则不朽。