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意见
Opinion
I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
我希望这个节目能有尽可能多的观众。我不想得到X的评级，因为在我看来，一旦发生这种情况，你就把其他人都划掉了。
Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.
我们的目标是更有效地向国会和公众宣传我们大学公众支持的研究的价值。
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
朋友应该是这样的人:我们可以同样信任他的理解和美德，我们可以立即重视他的公正和真诚的意见。
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
从很小的时候起，我就接受了这样一种观点:每个人都有责任尽其所能，尽可能地把自己的国家留在原来的样子。
These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.
这些措施可能不构成对和平的绝对保证，但我认为，它们是各国有史以来采取的最伟大的预防性措施。
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
新观点常常首先以玩笑和幻想的形式出现，然后以亵渎和背叛的形式出现，最后以可供讨论的问题的形式出现，最后以公认的真理的形式出现。
Knowledge has three degrees -- opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
知识有三个学位——意见、科学、启发。第一种方法或工具是感觉;第二，辩证法;第三，直觉。
No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought.
没有人应该如此珍贵到拒绝对他们工作的批评。但是，要尊重一个意见，我们必须知道它是诚实地、经过适当考虑而提出的。
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
时髦的环境是每个人的意见都是由其他所有人的意见组成的。每个人都有不同的观点吗?那么这就是一个文学环境。
It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.
这是我个人的观点，我不支持任何其他人，我认为你的免疫系统和你的健康程度决定了你对任何过量食物的反应。
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
使人聪明，使人自由。由此产生了公民自由;任何篡夺的权力都不能抵挡舆论的炮火。
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
一位女士对她的医生说:“我的背不好。医生说:“年纪大了。”女士说:“我想听听第二个意见。”医生说:“好吧，你也很丑。”
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All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.
所有空虚的灵魂都倾向于极端的观点。
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
人们遭受的最大欺骗来自他们自己的意见。
It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.
这是一个非常复杂的问题关于什么时候是事实而不是观点背景下的事实。
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
要记住我的观点，而不同时记住我提出这些观点的理由，已经够难的了!
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
荒谬,n。:与自己的观点明显不一致的陈述或信念。