A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
私人
Private
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.
现在,城市可能会推平私人住宅、农场和小型企业,为购物中心或其他开发项目让路。
I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
我几乎没有私人生活。我已经习惯了,准备好了。是的,有时候很难,但这是我做出的选择。
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
经典与浪漫:家庭争吵的私人语言,一场关于人与自然之间重点分配的死争论。
My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
我的表演就是我的宣言。我要说的在屏幕上。我的生活是我自己的。我不想谈论我的私人生活。我为什么要呢?
What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.
演员在私生活中,很大程度上是在舞台上,因为他无法向观众隐藏自己和真实的性格。
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
孤傲的人有可能相信自己比别人更优秀,并将自己对社会的批判当作一种意识形态,为自己谋取私利。
It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.
诚然,就政治家的职业品质而言,他并不总是,甚至常常符合最受认可的私人行为模式。
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
知识产权是一个重要的法律和文化问题。社会作为一个整体面临着复杂的问题:私有与开源,等等。
After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.
私底下看完测谎图后,测谎员告诉我,我已经通过了考试,他认为我与炭疽字母无关。
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
个人利益与社会福利的平衡是文明道德的根本;但是英雄时代的道德是建立在个性的基础上的,而不是其他。
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
显然,财产应该是私有的更好,但使用它是普遍的;立法者的特殊任务就是在人身上创造这种仁慈的性情。
I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.
我是一个非常注重隐私的人——在某种程度上,有点难以忍受。我想,当它发生的时候,我认为名人的事情只是一个暂时的现象,而我却置身事外。
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There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.
将一家公司私有化当然有合理的理由,也有可能是首席执行官在私营公司的少数股东而不是上市公司分散的、通常不感兴趣的股东的监督下,公司的表现会更好。
I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
我呼吁上帝作证,作为一个普通人,我没有做过任何不符合诚实人要求的事情,作为一个公众人物,我也没有做过任何不值得我做的事情。
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
赢得观众需要运气和才能。有些艺术家是私人的和害羞的。这花费了他们太多。
I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.
我的身体没有任何污点。当我在自己的私人空间里,我很少穿衣服。
Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
幸运的是,我们不是一家上市公司——我们是一群私营公司,我可以做我想做的事情。
I would love to do more private concerts.
我想做更多的私人音乐会。