A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
规则
Rule
The trustiest rule of social disintegration: bars burn last.
社会瓦解的最可靠规则:酒吧烧到最后。
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
我推荐一条规则:永远不要同时做两件坏事。
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
像你的邻居那样做是唯一明智的规则。
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
在每个社会里,有些人生来就是要统治的,有些人生来就是要忠告的。
Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.
不管人们怎么想,我在学校里就是个循规蹈矩的人。
I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.
我从来就不是一个按规则写作的人,即使是我自己的规则。
Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.
连续性并不排除对新情况采取新方法的可能性。
Bookworms will rule the world as soon as we finish one more chapter.
只要我们再读完一章,书虫就会统治世界。
The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.
探险的第一条规则是大家要团结一致。
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
你只能通过为人民服务来治理人民。这条规则也不例外。
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
暴君死了,他的统治也就结束了;烈士死了,他的统治刚开始。
Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.
力量不能使人统治;它使人有能力为他人服务。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
这是一个很好的规则永远不会看到或跟的人字已经逼迫你的心,或者帮助它,就像它是明智的,我不会过于密切有时在明亮的光线照在你的路径在一个夏天的夜晚,如果你不会看到下面的丑陋的虫子。
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
写作时,一般来说,把你写的每一个字都用笔写一遍;你不知道它会给你的风格带来多大的活力。
I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
我相信,一个国家元首所能拥有的最大财富就是能够睡个好觉。
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
在我能和别人一起生活之前,我必须和我自己一起生活。唯一不遵守多数决定原则的是一个人的良心。
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
如果我们所有人都生活在离戒律和黄金法则更近的地方,我们可能会更接近平衡预算。
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
但愿只有诚实和智慧的人才能统治这个国家。