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绝对
Absolute
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
真正的天才不正是在最绝对的简单中，才能最奇妙地驾驭它的小翅膀吗?
I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense, also to realize that there can be no number one.
我有绝对的信心不要成为第二，但我有足够的理智，也意识到不可能有第一。
To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.
说一首诗是绝对的就等于什么也没说，因为墨迹是绝对的。然而，你把你喜欢的放进它。所以它变得完全相对。
I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
我是个功利主义者，所以我不认为反对说谎的规则是绝对的;它总是受制于一些凌驾于它之上的实用程序，这可能会阻止它的运行。
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
那些拥有绝对权力的人不仅可以预言并使他们的预言成真，而且他们还可以说谎并使他们的谎言成真。
Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
相对主义不是冷漠;相反，为了不让你听到反对你绝对命令的声音，你必须充满热情地漠不关心。
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
一个真正的恶棍，真正的东西，绝对的，艺术家，一生中很少见到他一次。普通的坏帽子在某种程度上总是一个正派的人。
I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made me want to hide - to run away and hide.
我真的认为，作为一个演员，你应该不断地研究别人，而名人对我的影响是绝对相反的。这使我想藏起来——跑开藏起来。
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
教条主义和怀疑主义在某种意义上都是绝对的哲学;一个肯定知道，另一个肯定不知道。哲学应该消散的是确定性，无论是知识还是无知。
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
我认为，在成年人之间的自愿关系(人们可能喜欢或不喜欢这种关系)和那些把自己的身体强加于孩子或滥用职权强加于孩子的人之间，存在着绝对的、深刻的鸿沟。
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
人们希望我阴郁阴郁，然后写我是一个快乐的人，毕竟，这就是我。我认为这是一个绝对浪漫天真的例子，在作品和艺术家之间应该有一个平行。
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
对事业的绝对认同是成功领导的首要条件。
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
阅读——远离绝对孤独的最佳状态。
I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.
我喜欢一种忧郁，喜欢成为爱情的牺牲品。
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
我是宇宙的主人，却不是我自己，我是唯一反抗我绝对权力的人。
Death is an absolute marvel.
死亡绝对是个奇迹。