A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
常见
Common
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
只花国家负担得起的钱,奖励储蓄,鼓励独立,支持婚姻:人们知道这些都是常识。
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。
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
这种最高层次的政治讨论自由是西方文明与古典古代文明的共同点,但没有其他共同点。
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
如果一个人自信地朝着他的梦想前进,努力过他想象中的生活,他会在平常的时间里遇到意想不到的成功。
It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff.
农村医院和疗养院通常作为一个单一单位来运作,以便利用与分担某些服务和工作人员费用有关的节省。
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
说我讨厌一切是不准确的。我强烈赞成常识、诚实和正派。这使我永远没有资格担任公职。
Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
迈耶和我有一些共同之处,因为我们都是左撇子。我认为他能寻求这样的建议很好,因为他不太酷,也不太不舒服,不会去要求。
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
我来自那个社会,有一个共同的主线,特别是家庭价值观——你为你的家庭做任何事情的想法,以及对孩子无条件的爱。
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
随着年龄的增长,我们坐在烟囱的角落里,周围最普通的事物都有了鲜活的意义,并暗示着这些驾车的时代与我们年轻时平静、缓慢移动的日子之间的不同。
The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
生活在各个经济层次的人的真实情况是,你会遇到那些善良的人,那些不善良的人,那些贪婪的人,无论他们是富有还是贫穷。无论你走到哪条街上,这都是贯穿人性的一条主线。
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
一个人在下议院可能说得很好,但在上议院却可能完全失败。有两种截然不同的风格是必不可少的:在我的职业生涯中,如果我有时间,我打算把这两种风格都举一个例子。
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
常识是世界上分布得最均匀的东西,因为每个人都认为自己很有天赋,即使是那些在其他事情上最难满足的人,也没有比他们已经拥有的东西更渴望得到常识的习惯。
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A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
对我的普遍误解是……我是一个坚强、粗野的北方人,我想我确实是。但是我大部分时间都很有礼貌。我猜是你扮演的角色。我不介意。我不是个硬汉。从某种意义上说,我想做一个公正、随和、善良的人。
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
爱并不完全是一种精神错乱,但它有许多共同之处。
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
完全相信的人和完全愚蠢的人有太多的相似之处,所以这种相似绝不是偶然的。
I wish i had the common sense to step away from the computer and not send those pointless messages that just caused problems.
我希望我有常识远离电脑,不要发送那些毫无意义的信息,只会造成问题。
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。
The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
上帝偏爱相貌平平的人。这就是为什么他做了这么多。