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共识
Consensus
The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.
普遍的共识似乎是我根本不采取行动。
If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.
如果我们达成共识，我们就不用去公投了。
There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
没有共识，没有同质性，只有无真相。
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
协商一致意见的领域变化之快令人难以置信;确定性的泡沫不断膨胀。
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
一个达成共识的政治家会做一些他不相信是正确的事情，因为当他这么做的时候会让人们保持沉默。
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
很久以前，一群人就什么是真实的什么不是达成了一个普遍的共识，从那以后，我们大多数人都同意了这个观点。
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
捕食者让达成共识变得更加困难。在鸟类和植物上达成一致要比在危及人类和牲畜的动物上达成一致容易得多。
It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.
令人尴尬的是，我们没有在政治领导人之间达成足够广泛的共识，认为应该进行真正的改革。我可以数一数认真对待这些问题的国会议员。
Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.
许多首席执行官和领导者认为沉默是金，共识是福。有时是这样。但更常见的情况是，这意味着在表达担忧和异议方面没有受到尊重的程序。