I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

  • -- Rachel Field 雷切尔·菲尔德

我看到公众舆论像一阵风一样转变,甚至把它点燃的火也扑灭了。

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The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned.

有一张照片引起了很多讨论,这是我拍的一张照片,照片上一个男人头朝下倒在了楼里,楼还没倒。他被困在火里,决定跳下去结束自己的生命,而不是被烧死。

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days.

在教皇召集了一个委员会来证实这一变形之前,既没有任何异端邪说,也没有任何不同的意见,更没有关于这一问题的争论。因此,这一意见很可能是他们最近几天提出的。

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

我做现场表演的一个原因——以及每个月在公共电台的演讲——是为了提醒自己,人们听到了这个节目,它有观众,它存在于世界上。很容易忘记这一点。

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

在每一个时代,都有一种流行的观点,在它之前就已经有了,可以说,给了这个世纪一个家族的特征。

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

人们普遍错误地认为,对公众抱怨最多的人,也就是对其福利最焦虑的人。

A crooked log makes a good fire.

弯曲的木头生的火旺。