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规则
Rule
First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
政治的第一条规则:你不可能赢，除非你在选票上。第二条规则:如果你跑步，你可能会输。而且，如果你平了，你就赢不了。
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
在所有创造性的会议中都必须遵循一条重要的规则。从来没有首先发言。至少在一开始，你的工作就是闭嘴。
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。
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 do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.
一般说来，我是不上大学的。当我玩完的时候，我真的玩完了。我一无所有;没有任何保留。
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
一般来说，黑人银行之所以倒闭，是因为人们被教育说，他们自己的商业先驱不能在这个领域发挥作用，于是取出了存款。
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.
我有一个简单的原则，我只朝一个方向前进——我从头到尾写这本书。跟随时间之箭，我让自己保持清醒。
I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.
我还说过，你不排除任何选择，因为如果你在公共生活中，因为你想有所作为……显然，你必须对这些可能性持开放态度。
That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
这是做生意的规矩。没有舌头。你无法真正进入其中，否则会很奇怪。我觉得那个场景让他的女朋友嫉妒了。有问题。
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
游戏的规则是永远不要假设任何人，无论多么光荣，都能在酷刑下站起来。如果知道我在哪里的X先生因为某种原因被抓住了，我就会搬家。
The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.
在这种情况下，指导我们的规则是简单而明显的:我们邻国的全部证词与任何一个邻国的证词一样，都必须符合同样的条件。
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
正如我赞同一个年轻人身上有一点老人的气质一样，我对一个老人身上有一点年轻人的气质也同样感到高兴。遵守这条规则的人，身体可能会变老，但思想永远不会变老。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
没有哪条规则如此普遍，也不允许有例外。
As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
一般来说，我不打算带着我的奥斯卡奖去旅行，但我们可能要破例了。
By ancestry, I was born to rule.
根据血统，我生来就是要统治的。
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
我们所知道的唯一可靠的规则是，老是说要做一个绅士的人从来就不是一个真正的绅士。
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。