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Character
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
在每一个时代，都有一种流行的观点，在它之前就已经有了，可以说，给了这个世纪一个家族的特征。
Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
斯莱特是个大明星，他在这一行干了很长时间。他总是心情很好，很随和，但是他对待自己的性格很认真。
When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
在过去的几年里，当我比憨豆演得更多的时候，我做了一些奇怪的事情——比如在聊天节目中扮演憨豆先生。
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
人往深渊里看，没有东西在盯着他。在那一刻，人找到了自己的性格。这就是使他远离深渊的原因。
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
友谊被认为是对品格的最严峻的考验。我们认为，忠于一个血脉相连的家庭和宗族是很容易的。
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
我们都有这样或那样的倾向。我认为这才是写作的真正关键。不加判断地看一个人物。
I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.
我一直想为一个角色剃光头，因为我想扮演一个剃光头的角色。我不知道它的魅力是什么。
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
坚忍不拔、奋发图强是我一直希望拥有的品质。我一向鄙视抱怨和懦弱的决心所发出的哀嚎。
Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked.
哦，那个角色离我很远。我不高兴的。我不是温和的。不过我确实穿了紧身裤，因为我发现它很管用。
I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.
我通常会先从观众的角度来看待这些事情，然后再仔细观察他们谈论我的具体角色。
After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
演完每个角色后，我总会离开，感觉有点不一样。我经历了一些与我的生活无关的事情，但我已经让它成为了我的生活。
Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.
新闻可以直接走到决策室的门口。一部小说可以进入房间——进入角色的大脑。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
没有所谓的“白手起家”的人。我们是由成千上万的人组成的。每一个曾经为我们做过一件好事，或对我们说过一句鼓励的话的人，都已经成为我们性格、思想以及成功的组成部分。
A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.
离散级数是一系列项的集合，每一项都是经验推导出来的，每一项都是经验成立的。这就是这些诗歌残缺不全的原因。
And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.
这也是观众的感受，当他们看这个节目的时候，当他们现在看的时候。最重要的是它的写作方式。写得很诚实。从来没有人为的笑声。性格从不妥协。
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
品格高于才智。伟大的灵魂不仅会思考，也会坚强地生活。
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
我已经走了很远很远，但我的性格让我离家很近。
I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.
比起全新的东西，我更喜欢那些旧的、破旧的、有个性的东西。