A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
常见
Common
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
我们在下议院有一条格言，写在我们房子的墙上，那就是古老的方式是最安全、最可靠的方式。
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
魔术师和政客有很多共同点:他们都必须把我们的注意力从他们真正在做的事情上转移开。
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
常识和幽默感是一回事，它们以不同的速度运动。幽默感就是常识，跳舞。
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
卡车、易货交易和用一种东西交换另一种东西的倾向对所有人来说都是普遍的，在任何其他动物种族中都找不到这种倾向。
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
“平凡人高于他们的地位”这一抱怨，难道不常以“平凡人低于他们的地位”这一事实为依据吗?
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
语言就像金钱，没有了它，就可能存在特定的相对价值，并被人们所感知，但不能被归结为一个共同的分母。
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain
我们当然和野兽属于同一类;动物的每一个行为都与寻求身体的快乐和避免痛苦有关
Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.
大多数时候，人们在电视上的目标都很低。他们正试图达到这个共识，尤其是在网络电视上。
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
一个好的领导者的天才之处在于，他留下了一个没有天才风度的常识可以成功处理的局面。
Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.
环顾四周，你会发现，每个人的努力和行为都受到限制，受到规范，或受到促进，都是基于共同福利的原则。
It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.
这是最好的方法……在三拍子中强调小节的第一部分，在普通拍子中强调小节的第一部分和第三部分。
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
如果所有的不幸都堆在一起，每个人都必须得到平等的一份，那么大多数人都会满足于拿走自己的，然后离开。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction .
没有比在她管辖范围之外的案件中诉诸逻辑更常见、更愚蠢的错误了 。
Common sense often makes good law.
常识常成为好法律。
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
名字一旦被广泛使用，很快就会变成纯粹的发音，它们的词源就像地球上的许多奇迹一样，被埋没在习惯的尘埃之下。
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
在这个社会中，对黑人不再存在单一的共同障碍。
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
这是一个普遍的现象，只是最漂亮的女孩发现很难找到一个男人。
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
让我们不要害怕说出一个常识:没有良好的纪律，你就不可能有高标准。