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General
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。
As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget.
作为司法部长，我可以调查这件事，也可以忽略它，因为他们是一群有权有势的立法者……恐怕他们要削减我的预算。
I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.
作为司法部长，我不能这么做。为什么？因为他们是我的客户。你不能说当你是司法部长的时候他们没有做他们应该做的事。
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
孩子是优秀的观察者，他们常常能察觉到你最微小的缺点。总的来说，那些管理孩子的人，什么也不原谅他们，只原谅他们自己的一切。
General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.
谢尔曼将军把记者看作是司令部和战场上的累赘和危险，并在他伟大的战争生涯中对他们采取了相应的行动。
Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
习惯上，我可能会把这种制度化的消遣写得好像它存在于一般的环境之外，但我的故事不适合这样的处理。
We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.
我们不应该建立一种技术来给人们所说的话涂上颜色或涂上灰色。媒体总体上是平衡的，尽管有许多问题需要解决，但媒体正确地关注这些问题。
We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
我们知道:当然，关于市场和类似的社会结构，有许多事实是我们无法衡量的，而且我们确实只有一些非常不精确和笼统的资料。
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
总的来说，你如何让你的公司成为一个工作的好地方?这是一套非常非常复杂的技能。很多都是在职培训，再加上优秀的导师。
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
语言学必须认识到在语言中普遍存在的规律，并以严格理性的方式，将普遍现象与局限于语言某一分支的现象区分开来。
In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.
一般来说，宇宙中高能量的物体，或者说高能量的过程，会在短波长范围内向伽马射线或x射线辐射更多。
I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.
我对约会游戏一无所知。我不知道如何和一个特定的人交谈并建立联系。我只是认为你必须一个人一个人地去，尽可能地与人相处。
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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。
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
经验要求人是唯一一种吞噬同类的动物，因为我无法用更温和的词来形容富人对穷人的普遍掠夺。
Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.
我们在这些协议背后的想法是，我们希望通用汽车的所有工作都是好工作。
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。
What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
过去的就让它过去吧。我想这是普遍的态度。
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。