A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
意见
Opinion
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
想要真正提供帮助的祖父母们最好闭上嘴巴,在别人要求之前不要发表自己的意见。
It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.
这很有趣,因为我是一个有强烈观点的人,当我提出一个观点时,即使过了一段时间我开始觉得它不正确,我也会坚持。
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
我将简单地告诉你我对人类的看法。他们的心脏在正确的位置,但他们的大脑是一个完全低效的器官。
I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.
我追随我的缪斯,我很幸运身边有很多好人,在我看来,这是一张非常好的唱片。
Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.
华尔街发生的一切只会强化我的观点:事实上,还有一个比娱乐业更可笑的行业。
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
在每一个时代,都有一种流行的观点,在它之前就已经有了,可以说,给了这个世纪一个家族的特征。
You are not entitled to an opinion. An opinion is what you have when you don't have any facts. When you have the facts, you don't need an opinion.
你无权发表意见。意见是当你没有任何事实的时候所拥有的东西。当你有了事实,你就不需要意见了。
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
有些人认为农作物可以在月球上种植;这引发了一种担忧,即我们可能不久就会付钱让某些人不要这么做。
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
为了观点而压迫任何一个人,除了加深这些观点并使它们变得更重要之外,很少有其他效果。
A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
我们被告知,政治家应该听从民意。毫无疑问,就像马车夫跟在马背后面一样;牢牢地抓住缰绳,引导他们。
I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.
我认为大多数人的观点是,如果圣路易斯有一支自己的球队,他们可以为之加油,那么它将会是一个伟大的足球城市。
I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.
我想说的是,在我们所做的每一项调查中,都会有不同的意见,在你有部分事实的情况下,这些事实意味着什么。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
“在我看来”,这句话几乎没什么可说的——甚至不谦虚。自然一句话只是你的意见;你又不是教皇。
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
对僵化的观点的忠诚从来没有打破过枷锁,也从来没有解放过一个人的灵魂。
My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
我的好意见,一旦失去,就永远失去了。
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
人们似乎没有看到,他们对世界的看法也是一种性格的表白。
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
人类对自己评价如此之低的一个原因是,它从作家那里获得了如此多的智慧。
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
别人对你的看法不一定要成为你的现实。