A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
断言
Assertion
Never argue; repeat your assertion.
从来没有认为;重复你的断言。
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
做出明确的断言。避免使用平淡、无趣、犹豫、不置可否的语言。
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
大学是我们文化中的一种主张，即思想创造的东西有价值，可以传达价值。
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
一百个断言中有九十九个断言说一件事不能做，其实什么也不是，而是不愿意去做。
I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.
我太蠢了。无神论者不能支持他们认为上帝不存在的主张。我所能做的最愚蠢的事就是拒绝接受他的事实。
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
在大多数诗歌中，自然物只是一种修辞技巧，但在华兹华斯看来，自然物中所蕴含的生命意义，几乎就是他所认为的字面上的事实。