A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
主要
Major
I'm a golfer not a history major.
我是高尔夫球手,不是历史专业的。
My major task was to keep us solvent.
我的主要任务是保持我们的偿付能力。
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
摄影是解释人与人之间关系的主要力量。
It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
现在很清楚,没有发生重大违规行为。
Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.
现在有那么多真正优秀的团队,他们第一次获得了巨大的成功,却无法再获得第二笔交易。
Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
虽然我是麦吉尔大学商科专业的,但我什么都不知道……但后来我发现,在人生的很长一段时间里,没有人知道任何事情。
The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.
事实是,正如我们大多数人所知,全球变暖是真实存在的,而人类是主要的贡献者,主要是因为我们浪费化石燃料。
The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today.
水门事件的改革多年来确实发挥了良好的作用,如果得到改进和扩大,这些改革可以对今天的制度产生真正和重大的影响。
I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
我仍然是第一名,而且我最近刚刚在一项重要赛事中战胜了我最强大的对手,所以我想如果我决定留下来,我还有几年的时间。
We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.
我们以各种各样的方式追赶潮流——你知道小的方式和大的方式——就像你刚刚遇到的不是严格意义上的审查,而是某种更丑陋的方式。
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
重大的成功有点像加冕礼。就像我成了国王一样。我是世界上最有名的人之一,爱与恨同等重要。我看不出有什么不好。它使我成为一个快乐的人。
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.
教学是人类唯一的主要职业,我们还没有开发出工具,使一个普通人有能力和表现。在教学中,我们依赖于“自然主义者”,那些不知何故知道如何教学的人。