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原则
Principles
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
人类所有伟大的事业都是在绝对原则的名义下完成的。
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
我是一个有固定不变的原则的人，第一个原则是任何时候都要灵活。
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
我认为我的原则不会改变。我认为，你将这些原则应用于现代社会的方式发生了变化。
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
贪婪似乎已渗透到我们的各项重要原则之中，以致于与除和平与富裕之外的一切补救希望作斗争。
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
放弃自己的原则是真正的死亡-和为一个不可能的爱而死，这是爱的对立面。
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!
无情、贪婪、暴虐、声名狼藉，他们有一个原则值得所有其他的原则，那就是快乐的原则!
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
当你说你原则上同意一件事的时候，你的意思是你根本没有打算把它付诸实践。
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
精心设计的建筑注重美学，激发和启发居住者，促进他们的健康。
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
由其自身规律所产生的诗歌，在所谓的审美、判断、演绎的客观原则方面，可能是未实现的，是不好的。
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
但是，一个组织越是成功和繁荣，它就越有可能偏离其最初的理想、原则和宗旨。
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
如果我们仅仅遵循祖辈们所熟知的原则，没有十分之一的商界人士能做得那么好。
Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.
政治就是要赢。如果你没有赢，你就不能把你的原则付诸实践。因此，想办法赢得胜利，或者坐以待毙。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
通过否定科学原理，人们可以维持任何悖论。
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
我一生都是一个自私的人，在实践上，虽然在原则上不是。
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
如果一个人太拘泥于自己的原则，他就很难见到任何人。
The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.
解释和教育产品或民选官员背后的原则是相似的，尽管实际执行情况非常、非常不同。
I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems.
我相信自由市场原则将解决我们的医疗问题。