A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
主要
Principal
The principal cause of war is war itself.
战争的主要原因是战争本身。
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
我们谈原则，但按动机行事。
I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
我一直支持措施和原则，而不是人。
I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.
很多人告诉我，他们希望我是他们的校长。
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
聪明的主要作用是知道如何评价事物的价值。
I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.
我在扮演一个主要的角色，这给了你更多的影响力和信心。
You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
你知道这不是我支付本金的利息，也不是我支付利息的本金。
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
对刺进别人胸中的笑话报以微笑，将成为恶作剧的主要内容。
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
这个国家孤独的主要原因是电视。发生的事情是，这个家庭独自“聚在一起”。
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
指挥家的主要任务不是把自己暴露在公众面前，而是尽可能地隐藏在自己的职责背后。我们是飞行员，不是仆人。
Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.
他们中有些人自称对哥伦比亚号的所有主要水域都很熟悉，他们向我保证，除了大海，这些水域没有别的联系。
One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
我人生的主要目标之一就是通过做我的工作来避免让我的孩子们难堪。我希望我做到了这一点，我希望，以我现在的工作，他们即使不感到自豪，至少也不会为此感到尴尬。我得说，我的三个孩子是最讨人喜欢的，他们除了使我高兴以外，什么也不做。