A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
公共
Public
Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.
在这个公共舞台上，每个人都发表声明，并得到不同的解释。
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
我最喜欢的是孩子们的来访。他们不想当公职。
Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.
作为一个公众人物并不意味着你对每个人都是一块肉。
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
每个公众人物都有闭上嘴的时候。
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
任何人、任何地点、任何时间都无权危害公共安全。
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
我从来没有听说过那些为了公众利益而影响交易的人做了多少好事。
If there is anything that a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
如果一个公务员讨厌做什么，那就是为公众做点什么。
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
我们的工作只是拿起一面镜子——告诉并向公众展示发生了什么。
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
新闻界的工作是鼓励辩论，而不是向公众提供信息。
I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.
我认为没有人能说我在公开场合说了一件事，在私下里做了另一件事。
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
划定罚球区的线条是公立学校操场上的耻辱。
Best friends: They know how stupid you are and still choose to be seen with you in public.
最好的朋友:他们知道你有多蠢，但仍然选择和你一起出现在公共场合。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
布道仍然是公共话语的最后一种形式，在那里，文化上是禁止顶嘴的。
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。
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.
如果博客作者想要改善我们的公共话语——帮助忙碌且通常无知的人们理解这个世界——就有必要使用某种标准来判断他们的可靠性。或许答案(严格意义上的建议)在于他们的同行。也许不是。
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。
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.
我们必须确保，在消除出口行业的童工的同时，我们也在消除非正规部门的童工，因为非正规部门更不受公众监督，从而使儿童更容易受到虐待和剥削。