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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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

在这个世界上,跟随世俗的意见生活是很容易的;在孤独中,我们很容易活在自己的世界里;但伟大的人是那些在人群中保持绝对甜蜜的孤独的独立性的人。

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.

在我看来,原子的神秘行为所带来的问题与当今世界所面临的经济悖论所带来的问题有很大的相似之处。

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

我在郊区的一个小胡同里长大,上的是公立学校。周末我去了好市多。

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

布道仍然是公共话语的最后一种形式,在那里,文化上是禁止顶嘴的。

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

我充满热情和激情。我还没有准备好集中精力和激情。

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

我的激情从未跳出壁炉,点燃地毯。