A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
一般
General
I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.
我一般不上网。我让别人替我做这件事，因为我觉得它很缓慢。
Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?
一般来说，人际关系会让人有点紧张。它是关于信任。我足够信任你去那里吗?
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
要穿透和驱散这些黑暗的乌云，必须通过教育来增强一般人的心智。
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
决定!而一个将军，一个没有决断能力的三军统帅，那他就一无是处。
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
一般来说，男人在餐桌上享用一顿美餐时比他妻子讲希腊语时更高兴。
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
人类学对于女性学者，甚至女权主义学者来说，一直是相当友好的。
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
我想指出的是，生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活的一般原则。
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
自由的每一次普遍增长都伴随着某种退化，其原因与自由相同。
Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.
不知何故，他们不断地在电视上纠缠公众，接受了我，并想要更多。
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
我现在看到，一般说来，讽刺是魔鬼的语言;因为这个原因，我早就干脆放弃了。
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
那种半声叹息，再加上两三个轻微的点头，是怜悯在一般社会中的小小变化。
Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
我尽量不去想普通大众，因为我不知道普通大众是什么，我也不认为任何人知道。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
没有什么比一句格言更没用的了。
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
妈妈对我说:“如果你是一名士兵，你就会成为一名将军。”如果你是个和尚，你就会成为教皇。”相反，我是个画家，后来成了毕加索。
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
没有哪条规则如此普遍，也不允许有例外。
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
我认为罗马人认为，如果有必要，今天的将军明天就应该当兵。
We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.
换句话说，我们知道一般的情况，在这种情况下，我们所谓的均衡会建立起来，这多少有点误导人，但我们永远不知道，如果市场带来这样一种均衡，会存在什么样的特定价格或工资。
It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.
一般来说，工作需要很多精力，尤其是当你是某件事的领导者时。