A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
原则
Principle
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
这似乎是一个奇怪的原则,阐明作为医院的第一要求,它应该不伤害病人。
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.
我的指导原则是共享繁荣。我们可以一起创造财富。全球经济不是零和游戏。
And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
我一直坚持这样一个原则,如果我对它有足够的兴趣来写它,那么它一定会引起很多人的兴趣。
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
宽容是把孩子当作成年人对待的原则;以及确保他们永远不会达到那个阶段的策略。
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
适度好的东西并不如它应该的那么好。适度的性情总是一种美德;但是原则上适度总是一种恶习。
Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.
环顾四周,你会发现,每个人的努力和行为都受到限制,受到规范,或受到促进,都是基于共同福利的原则。
We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
我一签署这项法案,我们就把每个人在医疗保健方面都应该有基本保障的核心原则奉为神圣。
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
例如,批评原则要求审查不同时期的贡献,从而在某种程度上着手于历史语言学。
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
我怀着这些见解,请各位先生们,像我刚才那样,冷静地回顾事实和原则,来看待这个问题。
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
累积自然选择进化理论是我们所知道的唯一一个理论上能够解释有组织复杂性存在的理论。
The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.
教会作为一个神圣的社会,拥有一种内在的生活原则,它能够吸收最多样化的材料,并将自己的形象印在这些材料上。
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
这意味着,对科学的信任——或根据科学原则的刻意控制——超过科学方法所能达到的程度,可能会产生可悲的后果。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
武力是专制主义的根本原则和直接根源。
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
因此,有时事实是好的,有时事实是坏的,从像言论自由一样广泛和重要的原则的观点来看,重要的事情是法院以一种非常保护的方式阐明这些原则是什么。
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.
推动社会进步的不是技术,也不是所谓的发展;这就是爱——这是唯一的原则。
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
我想指出的是,生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活的一般原则。
When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.
当一个人说,重要的不是钱,而是事情的原则,那就是钱。
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
人类兄弟会的原则是自恋的……因为这种爱的基础一直是这样一种假设:我们应该认识到,我们在全世界都是一样的。