A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
律师
Lawyers
Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
律师就像犀牛:厚脸皮,目光短浅,随时准备起诉。
Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.
牧师、议员和律师都认为我是伦敦最好的女主人。
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
减少律师的数量。他们就像海狸一样,来到河中间筑起水坝。
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
我多么爱露西的出生?我们决定不再让离婚律师从我们的错误中获利,而是让他们从中获利。
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
律师非常非常擅长让你免于牢狱之苦,但他们会牺牲你的名誉和信誉。
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
问题是所有的律师是否都是一样的。这就像问是否所有进入下水道的东西都是垃圾。
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
律师的首要准则是勤奋,就像其他所有职业的人一样。今天能做的事,不要留到明天。
A lawyer's dream of Heaven: Every man reclaimed his own property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
律师对天堂的梦想:每个人都在复活时收回自己的财产,并试图从他所有的祖先那里收回。
There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.
有些律师认为自己基本上是客户的工具,他们为自己的专业技能感到自豪。
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
没有历史和文学的律师是机械师,只是一个泥瓦匠;如果他对这些有一些了解,他可以大胆地自称为建筑师。
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
律师永远不会对友好的离婚感到完全满意,就像一个好的殡仪业者不想做完他的工作,然后让病人坐在桌子上一样。
I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.
我对那些著书立说从未输过官司的律师印象深刻。大多数从未输过官司的律师都没有足够的官司。但也有非常困难的情况。
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
真正聪明的人现在想成为律师或记者。
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
律师是无能者的第一避难所。
That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.
这就是我们律师的事情——如果可能的话,我们将会彼此消耗。
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
一个好律师不是那种能洞悉一切事情的人,也不是那种能把他所有的条件都具备的人,而是那种全心全意地为你效劳,使你摆脱困境的人。
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
律师为了打赢官司会不择手段,有时甚至会讲真话。
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
这与事实、法律和法官的身份有关。所以我认为律师有时夸大了他们在输赢中的作用。律师确实扮演了一个角色,而且是主要角色,但他们并不是这场游戏中的唯一玩家。