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I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.
我对歌剧很感兴趣,在我看来,当代歌剧唯一可能的剧场就是电视。所以我开始致力于一种电视,一种歌剧。
It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.
只是,当乐团看着我的时候,我想让他们看到一个全身心投入的人,他能反映出我们排练的内容,他的作用是让他们有可能做到这一点。
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
当一个地方拥挤到需要身份证的程度时,社会崩溃就不远了。是时候去别的地方了。太空旅行最好的地方是它使去其他地方成为可能。
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
因为身体是一台机器,所以教育是可能的。教育是习惯的形成,是一种人工组织对身体自然组织的超诱导。
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
在你看到一些东西之前,你必须想象它是可能的。证据就在你面前,但是如果你不能想象以前从未存在过的东西,那是不可能的。
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
无产阶级利用国家不是为了自由,而是为了压制它的敌人,一旦谈到自由,国家就不复存在了。
Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.
每个人都认为这是自画像,但其实并不是。我只是把自己当作一个模特,因为我知道我可以把自己推向极端,让每一个镜头都尽可能地丑陋、愚蠢或愚蠢。
Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
几乎你看到的每一部喜剧都是关于人们做出所有错误的选择,使所有错误的判断成为可能。好的喜剧就是在这种规模下运作的。因为它在心理上非常真实。
At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.
无论是在世界杯还是现在的联合会杯,我们的安保措施都将确保所有参赛人员得到最大程度的保护,无论是场内还是场外。
Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
任何具有行业代表性的公司政策和计划都注定是平庸的。如果不是这样,应该有可能证明所有其他竞争对手都处于明显的劣势。
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
教育不是改造学生,不是娱乐学生,也不是培养专业技术人员。它是使他们的思想不安,开阔他们的视野,激发他们的智慧,如果可能的话,教他们正确地思考。
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
切鸡来预测未来,如果诚实地做,并且尽可能少地解释,是一种随机化。但鸡内脏很难读懂,也会让人联想到想象力或腐败。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.
如果我能在明年再次见到尽可能多的来自世界各地的朋友,那将会让我开心得多。对我个人来说,这就是我们作为世界杯东道主的巨大机遇所在。
What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities.
僵尸对我有什么吸引力?我不知道。也许这是所有超自然实体中最可能的,我不知道。
In order to isolate what was possible, you had to eliminate everything that was impossible.
为了孤立可能的事情,你必须排除所有不可能的事情。
She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.
她笑了,这是她最后一次笑了,她的微笑是那么的有可能。
Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.
由于没有任何撤退的正式命令,剩下的几个组织屈服于放弃战场的普遍冲动。军官和士兵被一种想法所控制,那就是尽可能远离敌人。
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
最好的科学家乐于体验,并从浪漫开始——认为一切皆有可能。