A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
公共
Public
Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.
战争往往是非常公开的事情,它们是可见的。有记者随部队旅行,你每天都能收到新闻报道。
The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
公众一眼就看出我父亲不是中心演员。他看上去像个角色,扮演着这个角色……他就是那个角色!真正的教父。
Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
公共住房不仅仅是一个居住的地方,公共住房项目应该为居民和他们的家庭提供机会。
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
我们对全能的法律在形成公众舆论、在给社会大众以基调和特征方面是如何发挥作用几乎一无所知。
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
公共资金的奢侈支出是一种罪恶,不能用这些钱对纳税人的价值来衡量。
I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
有人看见我和拉尔夫在一起,我就自己和拉尔夫的事发表了公开声明。我不需要做其他的。你可以过你想要的生活。
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
毫无疑问,我将不得不寻求一份被愉快地称为“有收入的工作”,我很高兴地说,这种工作并不描述担任公职。
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
公众知道人类是容易犯错的。只有被意识形态蒙蔽了双眼的人才会落入相信自己绝对正确的陷阱。
What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
从某种程度上说,整个公共关系灾难的有趣之处在于,网络的基础非常好。
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
这就是我们的生活,远离了公众的纠缠,在树木中找到了语言,在奔流的小溪中找到了书籍,在石头中找到了布道,在一切事物中找到了美好。
I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.
我根本不是公众人物。我不常出去,也不常去那种有人坐在你家车道尽头的地方。
I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.
我想我说的话。我不会给出一成不变的答案。我不像其他一些顶级球员那样,试图在公众面前树立自己的形象。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
我的印象是,大多数的女性公共服务工作者都是脾气暴躁的。正是因为他们比任何人都更关心服务,所以他们仍然希望找到一个合理和公平的谈判协议。但他们的耐心已经耗尽。
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.
在我几乎所有的公共生活中,我一直真诚地提倡世界主要国家之间达成一项协议,建立一切必要的国际机制,以实际消除文明国家之间的战争。
There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.
关于我家庭的故事已经够多了。我们都是公众人物。
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.
当社会说你不能在公共场合抓某些东西,但它们在公共场合会痒时,幽默就产生了。
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
令人遗憾的是,很少有人在取得某种程度的显赫或名望后,为自己写过纪念性的东西,至少像他们这样热爱自己的私生活和公共生活。
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
但遗憾的是,在公共广播中存在的一个问题是,人们往往认为你一直都是真诚的。