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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
在人所能忍受的所有疾病中,希望是一种廉价而普遍的治疗方法。
When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
当我写作的时候,我从来没有真正思考过主题或普遍性。
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
普选在原则上是合理的。基本元素是正确的。
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
过好你的生活,就像你的每一个行为都将成为一个普遍规律。
Each of us comes from a different background, but those are pretty universal.
我们每个人都来自不同的背景,但这些都是非常普遍的。
I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.
我认为归属感、父母关系和爱的主题显然是普遍的。
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
在普遍欺骗的时代,讲真话变成了一种革命性的行为。
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
每一个想对人类行善的人最终都以普遍的恃强凌弱告终。
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
愿你的生活就像你的行为准则将成为普遍规律一样。
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
女性分享自信的倾向是普遍的。我们通过分享来确认我们的现实。
I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
我相信,面对普遍的相互依赖,国家主权将会萎缩。
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
如果理性是一种普遍的能力,那么普通头脑的决定就是对真理最接近的判断标准。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
情人比任何逻辑学家或神学家都更了解绝对的善和普遍的美,除非神学家也是乔装打扮的情人。
The sea is the universal sewer.
大海是普遍的阴渠。
Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.
原罪是对不可否认的事实的唯一理性的解决办法,这一不可否认的事实是,人类在各个时代、各个阶层和世界各地都存在着深刻、普遍和早期表现出来的罪恶。
We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.
我们所有人都可以做得更好,唤起人们所说的人类利他主义的普遍原则:我们所有人都有帮助处于危险中的其他人的冲动。
The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.
你越具体,就越能触及更广泛的普遍真理。
It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
因此,社会的性质似乎决定了另一个更高的分支,它的优越性来自于它是对普遍利益感兴趣的自然保护者。