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规则
Rules
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
我按照我发现的政治规则行事。
Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.
金钱把所有的铁律都变成了橡皮筋。
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
逻辑教的是表达规则，而不是思考规则。
One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
我的一条规则是:永远不要听你的旧东西。
What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.
似乎很少的规则都是编造出来的。
There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.
和女孩打架没有规则。只是伤害。
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
艺术创造规则;规则不构成艺术品。
To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.
为了确保内心的平静，不要理会规章制度。
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
他们的规则只有一条:做你想做的。
We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.
如果我们不喜欢结果，我们就不能改变规则。
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
如果人们在战争中奴性地服从规则，他们就会失败。
If i followed all the rules, i would not have gotten anywhere.
如果我遵守所有的规则，我就不会有任何成就。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
环境是弱者的主宰;他们不过是聪明人的工具。
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
你不能通过遵守规则来学会走路。你从实践中学习，从跌倒中学习。
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
我认为自己是一个真正的现代主义者。即使当我做一件传统的礼服，我给它一个现代的扭曲。我去过去做研究。我需要知道之前发生了什么，这样我才能打破规则。
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
我试着不打破规则，而只是测试它们的弹性。
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.
我开始写作的时候，只是做一些与写作相关的小事情，而不是写作本身。我不知道怎么写小说。所以我做新闻是因为我可以学到一些规则。你可以教别人写新闻故事。他们可能写得不好，但你可以很容易地教他们。
One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
我在战争中学到的一条绝对规则是，不知道你不需要知道的任何事情，因为一旦你被抓住，他们会把它从你身上揪出来。