A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
公共
Public
We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.
我们不会听信那些惯于说人民的声音就是上帝的声音的人，因为群众的声音近乎疯狂。
When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
当你习惯了出现在公众视野中时，如果你得了一种疾病，你必须承认。而是要活在当下，而不是逃避。
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
由于预计大多数诗歌都比带着沉重的行李通过奥黑尔机场还要糟糕，公众对诗歌的了解少之又少。
Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.
虽然我是一个公众人物，我还是有点害羞。我认为我自己的个性并不重要。我宁愿保留一点隐私。
A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
我们被告知，政治家应该听从民意。毫无疑问，就像马车夫跟在马背后面一样;牢牢地抓住缰绳，引导他们。
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
人若不作愚妄人，就永远找不到智慧。唉，作家在公众面前必须是傻瓜，而其他人可以掩盖自己的踪迹。
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
几十年来，新闻报道的准则一直是，除非公职人员的私生活影响到公众表现，否则他们的私生活不会公开。
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
如果一个人把他的一生都奉献给了担任公职，并试图为他的人民做些什么，那么“政治家”这个词本身就有什么问题?
It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.
令人惊讶的是，当比赛的最后一天往往能产出最好、最令人兴奋的板球时，公众却坚决拒绝参加比赛的第三天。
The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.
艺术家对公众的吸引力就像马戏团对观众的吸引力一样。总有发生危险事情的希望。
Sometimes, when you are in the public eye, you just really need to just be part of the crowd, and look at other people rather than other people look at you.
有时候，当你在公众视野中，你真的需要成为人群中的一员，看着其他人而不是其他人看着你。
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
什么是公共历史?它不过是那些参与权力争夺者的成功与失望、罪恶、愚蠢和争吵的记录。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.
我想，在过去的十年里，新泽西人对我的了解是，我在公共生活中所看到的就是你所得到的。当我和你坐在一起的时候，我和我在家里或其他任何地方的时候没有什么不同。
What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things
公众的期望和个人的健康是两码事
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
我在爱丁堡度过了中产阶级的童年，在公立学校接受教育。
Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.
自从我开始写作，我就一直坚持着我最初的原则:不写一页，因为无论什么公众，或什么漂亮女孩想要这样或那样;而是按照我自己认为最好的方式，按照它给我带来的快乐来写作。
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。
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
然后，当大萧条来临时，这一切都彻底改变了。从那时起，整个公众就完全不同了，也没有那么多的人直接支持当代音乐。