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事实
Facts
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
注重事实的人可以纠正错误,但墨守成规的人不会纠正教条主义。
I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
我感谢并为之自豪的是,我受到的关注更多地是为了我们的国家,而不是我个人。
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.
我会试着把这些段落填满事实,给它们一个重量和形状不超过一朵蓝色蝴蝶的云。
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
生活的事实是,一个看过战争的孩子无法与一个除了从电视上知道战争是什么的孩子相比。
I think probation would have been a more appropriate sentence. I don't think the facts of this case call out for a period of incarceration.
我认为缓刑会更合适。我认为这个案件的事实不适合监禁一段时间。
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
如果观察到的准确无误的事实与它留下的任何选择都不相符,那么这个系统本身就需要重建。
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
希望的能力是生活中最重要的事实。它为人类提供了一种目标感和开始行动的能量。
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
我们必须推翻错误,而不是建立事实;我们不能确定什么是存在的,而必须从我们的想象中去追逐什么不是。
You are not entitled to an opinion. An opinion is what you have when you don't have any facts. When you have the facts, you don't need an opinion.
你无权发表意见。意见是当你没有任何事实的时候所拥有的东西。当你有了事实,你就不需要意见了。
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
你不可能从一份报纸上得到所有的事实,除非你掌握了所有的事实,否则你无法对正在发生的事情做出正确的判断。
I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.
我想说的是,在我们所做的每一项调查中,都会有不同的意见,在你有部分事实的情况下,这些事实意味着什么。
If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
如果你想知道关于我或蝙蝠侠的真相,请写信给最初的消息来源,我自己,以获得真相,而不是事后的猜测。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
我们告诉你事实。我告诉过你信息就是力量——知识就是力量。如果我们没有事实,我们就不可能在意识形态的斗争中拯救这个国家的灵魂。
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
无事可留、不给我们明证的、这人便为有福。
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
我相信想象力比知识更强大——神话比历史更强大——梦想比事实更强大——希望永远战胜经验——欢笑是治愈悲伤的良药——爱比死亡更强大。
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
永远不要放弃你真正想做的事情。拥有远大梦想的人比拥有全部事实的人更有力量。
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
悲观主义只描述一种态度,而不是事实,因此完全是主观的。
Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared.
我们的政治现在看起来如此艰难,而事实、科学和争论似乎并没有一直获胜,部分原因在于我们天生就不会在害怕的时候总是清晰地思考。