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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For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.
去年我在斯坦福大学读书，有时间读报纸。
It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
一件事发生就知道是件好事，而报纸显然无法做到这一点。
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。
There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.
有些人认为，我们需要更多的文学作品，需要一个大型国际出版社，需要一份伟大的和平报纸，诸如此类。我对这个想法持怀疑态度。
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
当你拿到一篇报纸专栏文章时，你并不是靠坐在栅栏上挠挠下巴，一边说“这个”，一边说“那个”来赚钱的。“你的意见是有报酬的。
When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.
当你还是个孩子的时候，你看到父母在看报纸，你会想，‘天哪，他们为什么要看报纸?“当你年轻的时候，你不会看报纸。但在你的生活中总会有那么一段时间报纸很酷。