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重要
Important
Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.
每个人都有保护自己的权利。这并不是说他们应该无视常识，避免或分散对抗。这非常非常重要。
I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.
我想我在今年早些时候已经解释过，我有点低估了经验在这个系列中的重要性，尤其是当你面对如此优秀的车手时。
I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.
我愿意在我认为的那个人的基础上做出妥协，但我认为，当人们出名时，成为他们所认识的唯一的名人对他们的心理很重要。
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.
是的，景观上的光线发生了变化，风向、风力和天气也发生了变化。这整个场景在荷马史诗中太重要了，不容忽视。
It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the child's viewing to a certain point.
这和孩子在电视上看什么一样重要。我很同情每一位知道这一点并关心孩子的家长，因为他们只能在一定程度上控制孩子的观看。
It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.
在我的表演中有类似的能量是很重要的。让角色变得太不一样只关乎我的自我，因为它不需要有太大的不同。
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
例如，随着计算机行业变得越来越重要和繁荣，追溯其在视觉、理想主义、创造力、浪漫和纯粹乐趣方面的衰落，是很有启发性的。
I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.
我知道，对欧洲和世界的和平来说，最重要的问题莫过于合理削减军备，特别是在欧洲和全世界的海军军备。
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.
当你和一个小型管弦乐队演奏协奏曲时，你会觉得它没有卡内基音乐厅那么重要。你试着解决所有的小问题。一旦这些都完成了，信任就来了。
It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.
我认为，对于小说作家来说，重要的是在写作的时候保持对书的节奏和形式的意识。也就是说，他应该制造一个物体，而不是喋喋不休。
The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.
作为老板，你要做的一件重要的事情就是设定标准。当你走进办公室说“这次我们不计较了”的那一刻，你就设定了一个新的标准，那就是更低的标准。所以你不能这么做。
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
幽默也许是一种理智的观点:意识到有些事情很重要，有些则不重要;这两种人在日常生活中最奇怪地混在一起。
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Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.
幸福是世界上最重要的东西，没有它，你的生活就会抑郁。
The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.
大师赛是一场非常重要的比赛。你不想毁了你的机会。赞助商明白这一点。
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
取得重大成功的两个最重要的条件是:第一，在正确的时间出现在正确的地点，第二，为此做点什么。
These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.
这些书需要大声读出来。这些书是孩子们互相分享的，我认为这很重要。
It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
对于探险家来说，愿意被引入歧途是很重要的。
If everything is very important, then nothing is important.
如果每件事都很重要，那么没有什么是重要的。