A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
报纸
Newspaper
What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
报纸上出现的往往是新的,但很少是真实的。
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
我想,一份好的报纸就是一个民族在自言自语。
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
有些报纸只适合放在鸟笼的底部。
We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
我们报纸迷;我无法想象没有报纸的生活。
Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.
报人的能力也许比其他任何阶层的人都要高。
A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.
报纸应该是信息量最大,评论最少的报纸。
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
荷马今天早上是新的,也许没有什么比今天的报纸更古老的了。
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
我早年就注意到报纸上从来没有正确报道过任何事件。
A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
一份好的报纸永远不够好,但一份糟糕的报纸永远是一种乐趣。
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
我为学校的报纸写东西,和所有的青少年一样,我也涉猎诗歌。
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
准确之于报纸,犹如美德之于女士,但报纸总能刊登一篇撤回的文章。
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
准确之于报纸,犹如美德之于女士;但报纸总是可以刊登一份撤回声明。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.
报纸报道就是讲故事。我们称我们的文章为“故事”,并试图以一种即使不了解所有背景知识的人也能理解的方式讲述它们。
Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.
韦伯斯特和我都很冷漠。我们俩一个人去那儿坐着。我一个人坐在角落里,手里拿着书和报纸。他有点跑动,然后他走过去坐在野餐桌上。他从不和其他小狗玩耍。
It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
人们常说,对于一个新闻工作者来说,没有人是英雄,而我作为一个墨迹斑斑的可怜虫,已经生活了太多年。
Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.
让我们面对现实吧:我们大多数人都没有意识到这一点,但作为榜样,我们辜负了孩子们的期望。最好的榜样是在家里:兄弟、父亲、祖父;母亲,姐妹,祖母。爸爸妈妈们,让你们的孩子看到你们读书是很重要的。不仅仅是书——读报纸也很好。
We don't like to see people say stuff in the newspaper, but he didn't say anything bad about me. So good luck to Carl.
我们不喜欢看到人们在报纸上说些什么,但是他没有说我的坏话。祝卡尔好运。
Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
别担心报纸上说什么。我不喜欢。为什么其他人应该这么做?我把真相告诉了报社的记者,但当你把真相告诉他们时,他们茫然不知所措。