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假设
Assume
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
艺术的第一个错误是认为它是严肃的。
The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.
保证失败的一个方法就是假定我们会失败。
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
骄傲常常在一副厚厚的面具下发挥作用，并常常披上谦逊的外衣。
If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.
如果你是一只垃圾场的狗，你会认为这就是生活:被锁起来，整天吠叫。
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
戏剧呈现出一种秩序。但愿如此，通过打乱这一秩序，它可能有一种出人意料的方式。
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
我们更倾向于概括不好的方面，而不是好的方面。我们认为坏的东西更有感染力。
We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.
我们应该假设最终产品可以被任何被冒犯或害怕它的消费者关掉。
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
在一个人说话之前，总可以有把握地假定他是个傻瓜。在他讲话之后，很少有必要假定这一点。
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
假设你可以根据一个人的哲学理论来判断他的道德信念，这总是不正确的。
I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.
我希望你能看到我生命中真正迷恋过的一些女孩。她们不是你想象中的那种女孩。
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.
我们认为长得好看的人比他们实际上更聪明、更有效率，而长相平平的人恰恰相反。
If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.
如果我们看到一个人坐在轮椅上，我们认为他不能走路。也许他们可以走三、四、五步。对他们来说，这意味着他们可以走路。
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People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
人们认为计算机会做人类所做的一切。不好的。人与人之间是不同的，他们都是真的不同于电脑。
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.
如果认为一个人必须坚持一个研究项目，直到它用尽了所有的启发式能力，在所有人都同意可能已经达到堕落的地步之前，他不能引入一个竞争对手的项目，这将是错误的。
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
当写文学小说的作家开始写剧本时，每个人都认为这就是结局。这是另一个再也写不好的人。
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
另一方面，和平作为一门科学、一门艺术的实现还处于起步阶段。但是，我们可以追溯它的成长，它的稳步进步，总有一天会有特定的个人被指定为这场运动的负责人和领导者。
People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.
人们似乎总是认为我们有一个完整的后备支持团队——化妆、服装和一名司机——但通常情况下，在战区，只有我和摄像师。