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Opposite
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
每当形势发展到极端时，它必然会反过来，成为它的对立面。
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
我们需要的不是去相信的意愿，而是去发现的意愿，而这恰恰相反。
Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
为什么撒谎?我不会像其他人那样，成为一个伪君子，说与我所想相反的话。
You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
你不想让他们震惊，也不想做完全相反的事情，但你也想扮演一个不同的角色。
There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.
在家里有更多的责任，所以旅游对我来说是相反的。就像呼吸新鲜空气一样。
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
奥登说，诗歌使什么都不会发生。但我想知道，情况是否可能正好相反。它能让一些事情发生。
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
事实的对立面是谬误，但一个深刻真理的对立面很可能是另一个深刻真理。
The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference. And you couldn’t be indifferent to him if your life depended on it.
爱的反面不是恨，而是冷漠。如果你的生命依赖于他，你就不能对他漠不关心。
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
每当我看到我爱的女孩在这个太大的世界上走向相反的方向时，我的心就像被一阵刺痛一样。
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
在我们对相反的不真实陈述有一个清晰的概念之前，我们永远不会完全理解任何真实陈述的含义。
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
有琐碎的真理，也有伟大的真理。琐碎真理的对立面显然是错误的。伟大真理的反面也是正确的。
Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
有些人认为拥有丰满的胸部会让女人变得愚蠢。事实上，恰恰相反:女人的胸部越大，男人就越笨。
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
在过去的三十年里，技术的进步超过了前两千年。进步的指数增长只会继续下去。人类学的评论与琐碎事实相反的是错误的;伟大真理的反面也是正确的。
I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
我经常被指责过于拘谨，但事实恰恰相反。
The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.
投资中最明智的规则是:当别人抛售时，买进。当别人买进时，卖出。当然，通常我们会做相反的事情。当其他人都在买东西时，我们假设他们知道一些我们不知道的东西，所以我们买了。然后人们开始抛售，恐慌袭来，我们也开始抛售。
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
一个作家边写边写，就像他犯了相反的错误一样，应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果，同时也使他的话难以理解。
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost.
有些事情，只有经过深思熟虑，朝着相反的方向发展，才能实现。一个人必须出国才能找到他失去的家。
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
艺术不是凭空想出来的东西。它是相反的-得到一些东西下来。