Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

每一种新观点,从一开始就只占少数。

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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

被少数人压迫是不好的,但被多数人压迫更坏。因为群众中有一种潜在的力量,叫它发挥作用,少数人是很难抗拒的。但出于全体人民的绝对意志,除了叛国之外,没有任何呼吁,没有任何救赎,没有任何庇护。

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

我不敢肯定这个理论是否正确。但是,如果人类的普遍观点是乐观的,那么我们将迎来科幻小说大受欢迎的时期。

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

在三个星期的时间里,我遇到了一群人,他们刚刚成立了一些小的程序员合作社,每个人都在谈论创业。

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

事实是,一个人如果想在各方面都表现得高尚,必然会在那么多不高尚的人中间陷入悲哀。

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

地球上最小的少数是个体。那些否认个人权利的人不能自称是少数群体的捍卫者。

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

在我们知道所有的答案之前,我们没有权利发表意见。

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

如你所知,狄更斯从未抽出时间来开始他的主页。

In every family's cooking pot is one black spot.

每个家庭的烹饪锅里都有一个黑点。