A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
首席
Chief
One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
无知是最大的财富。
Ill-timed laughter is a dangerous evil.
不合时宜的大笑是一种危险的罪恶。
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
问题的主要原因是解决方案。
We need a little more 'Hail to the Chief.'
我们需要再来点“向上士致敬”。
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
创造力的主要敌人是“好的”感觉。
I'm extremely lucky in that my wife is the chief scheduler.
我非常幸运,因为我妻子是主要的日程安排者。
Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.
商人……不是天生的首席执行官。他们通常都是先以人为本。
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
自动化社会的主要产物是一种普遍的、不断加深的无聊感。
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'
没有一个三军统帅会说,‘我不会听从地面部队的指挥。’
At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
在分会里,首领给我讲了许多有关西班牙人最近来访的详细情况。
A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
当一个人主要关心的是成为他应该成为的人的愿望时,他是简单的,这是诚实和自然的人性。
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
我们面临着一个矛盾的事实:教育已成为智力和思想自由的主要障碍之一。
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Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.
脂肪是心脏的主要敌人之一,因为它必须有充足的血液供应,因此不必要地增加心脏必须承受的泵血负荷。
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.
我认为,要想与男孩平起平坐,最重要的是要有学问和勇气。所以我决定学习希腊语,学习管理一匹马。
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.
一位了解自己作为领导者的优缺点的首席执行官,很可能比那些对自己的长处和短处熟视无睹的人更有效率。
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
很多年轻女孩都在寻找自己的职业道路,并说她们想成为首席执行官。人们看到的极限发生了变化。