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Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
建筑不能完全代表混乱和混乱,这是人类性格的一部分,但你需要把一些混乱放进建筑中,否则它就不是真实的。
I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
我不会说哈佛大学的毕业生中没有谁从来没有坚持过优越的态度。但他们这样做让我们非常难堪,而且他们绝不代表我所认识的哈佛。
What celebrities hope is that people identify not so much that they're particularly special or different, but they identify with them. We represent life in general, the guy who does whatever.
名人希望人们认同的不是他们特别特别或与众不同,而是他们认同他们。我们代表着生活,代表着做任何事的人。
I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
我和学生运动员交谈。我试着让他们记住,他们不只是运动员,而是学生运动员。你需要接受教育,保持双手干净,努力代表学校。
I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.
我用“酒吧间”这个词来代表卖酒和卖酒的一切手段,我恳切地呼吁人民停止这种买卖,不管它以什么名义或伪装进行。
It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.
我突然想到,每一件艺术作品都是一个提喻,没有办法回避它。一个人所做的每一件创造性的工作都只能代表某件事情整体的一个方面。我想不出有什么例外。
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
如果我们的人民确实具有很高的精神活力,那么在某种程度上,这种差别可能是由于塔木德的研究在种族的精神生活中所起的极其重要的作用。
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
在我看来,戏剧骑士不仅代表了这个职业的顶峰,也代表了这个职业所受到的尊重。令我惊讶的是,能在那家公司找到自己,是我职业生涯中遇到的最伟大的事情。
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People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.
人们会给我写恐吓信。当我还是白人的时候,我怎么敢代表西班牙裔呢?我试图让他们明白这是种族歧视。
It's always an honor to represent your country.
代表你的国家永远是一种荣誉。
I need to maintain a home in Derbyshire and in London to be able both to represent my constituents and to fulfil my responsibilities as an MP and as a minister.
我需要在德比郡和伦敦保持一个家,既能代表我的选民,又能履行我作为议员和部长的责任。
I'm proud to represent the average woman.
我很自豪能代表普通女性。
Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.
印出来的每一美元都不应该代表私人银行家的债务。它应该代表对共同利益的投资潜力,代表我们国家的共同需要。
A rejection does not represent your failure. It represents that you have a courage to try.
拒绝并不代表你的失败。它代表你有勇气去尝试。