A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
很少
Seldom
Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.
负面书籍可能是畅销书，但很少是经典著作。
Deep swimmers and high climbers seldom die in their beds.
深泳者和攀登者很少死在床上。
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.
许多老年人不识字。那些很少能做到的人。
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
法律太温和，很少有人遵守;太严厉，很少执行。
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
我们很少真诚地赞扬别人，除了钦佩我们的人。
How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
我们很少用同样的天平来衡量我们的邻居。
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
女人在买结婚礼服之前很少征求意见。
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
寡妇对情人的拒绝很少明确到排除希望的程度。
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
这句格言的笑声有时是胜利的，但很少是无忧无虑的。
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
天才的萌芽很少成熟。
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
只要人们认为我们能为他们服务，我们就很少发现人们忘恩负义。
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
我们所受的伤害和我们所受的伤害很少用同样的尺度来衡量。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.
我们谈论政客们出现在公共生活中，但他们很少出现在公共场所，在那里每个人都可以自由地以公民身份出现。
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
最成功的战争很少能弥补它的损失。
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
人也会犯错，因为动物很少或从不犯错，或者至少只有最聪明的动物才会犯错。
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
沉默不仅是金，而且很少被错误地引用。
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
人们常常从爱情过渡到爱情，但很少能从爱情过渡到爱情。
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
试图通过武力把自己的观点强加于人，很少是智慧的一部分;这往往是无知的一部分。