A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
少数民族
Minority
Beware the tyranny of the minority.
当心少数人的暴政。
The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.
少数人的目的是成为多数人。
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
即使你只是其中的一小部分,真相就是真相。
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
少数人有时是对的;大多数人总是错的。
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
什么是邪教?这只是意味着没有足够的人成为少数。
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
每一种新观点,从一开始就只占少数。
We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.
我们知道我们面临着困难。作为少数派,我们知道这是一个多么困难的挑战。
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
当我们处于少数时,勇气的考验就来了。当我们占多数的时候,宽容的考验就来了。
It does not take a majority to prevail but rather a tireless, irate minority, keen to set brush fires in the minds.
获胜并不需要多数人的支持,而是需要不知疲倦、愤怒的少数人的支持,他们渴望在头脑中点燃一团灌木丛。
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
它不需要多数人的支持就能获胜,而需要的是愤怒的、不知疲倦的少数人的支持,他们热衷于在人们的头脑中燃起熊熊烈火。
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
地球上最小的少数是个体。那些否认个人权利的人不能自称是少数群体的捍卫者。
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
当少数人是正确的时候,永远不要害怕与他们站在一起,因为正确的少数人终有一天会成为多数。
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则,即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风,但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利,而平等的法律必须保护这些权利,侵犯这些权利就是压迫。
When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.
当你是少数派时,不管你的议程是什么,你都不会拥有作为多数派成员所拥有的自由度。
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
据我所知,只有一小部分数学家,甚至包括那些柏拉图主义者,接受这样的观点,即可能存在真实但不可知的数学事实。
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
持不同意见的少数人只有在能够将自己的意志强加于多数人时才会感到自由:它最痛恨的是多数人的不同意见。
Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
少数派是关于作为一个个体。就像你必须在黑暗中寻找自己的位置,成为你想成为的那个人。
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.
小说写作、阅读和购书,一直都是一小部分人的活动,即使是在受教育程度最高的社会中也是如此。