Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

  • -- Charles Revson 查尔斯·郎佛迅

准确之于报纸,犹如美德之于女士,但报纸总能刊登一篇撤回的文章。

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Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.

我们想要做的任何事情,无论是在报纸上读到的,在广播上听到的,还是通过口口相传得到的,当你到达那里的时候,其他所有的网络、有线电视台和脱口秀节目都已经在竞相报道了。

There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the overemphasis of details. I often say that one must permit oneself, and quite advisedly and deliberately, a certain margin of misstatement.

对细节的过分强调会让准确性自取灭亡。我常说,一个人必须允许自己,相当慎重和故意地,一定程度上的错误陈述。

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath.

更准确地说,我是继绝地武士之后第一个被允许用叉子戳皮耶斯特的人,看看下面是否还有蒸汽。

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

在今天的世界上,没有受过大学教育的年轻女士就是没有受过教育。

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

我为学校的报纸写东西,和所有的青少年一样,我也涉猎诗歌。

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

在自然界中,没有什么比女士的头饰更多变的了。