A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
公共
Public
Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.
向公众出售鲜花……他们可以挂在墙上而不感到紧张的东西。
Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
深喉确实为我们提供了指导和信息，服务于公众利益。
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
The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.
公众一直被灌输自由市场是人类的灵丹妙药的观点。
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
那些败坏公众思想的人就像那些从公众钱包里偷东西的人一样邪恶。
The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
公众支付报酬，并认为自己有权参与表演者的个人事务。
Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
请记住，国会没有那么多的机会给公众留下印象。
I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.
我曾经让公司上市，我曾经让公司破产，我曾经破产。
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
宁可为自己写作而没有公众，也不要为公众写作而没有自我。
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
公众对经济的悲观程度甚至超过了最悲观的经济学家。
We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
我们只是要求该机构作出合理和诚实的决定，公众理应得到同样的权利。
But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.
但首先我想在哥伦比亚大学国际公共事务学院获得硕士学位。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it was definitely a culture shock, it was something I wasn't quite ready for.
我最大的恐惧是公开演讲，然后让每个人都知道我是谁，一开始肯定很奇怪。当我第一次获奖时，那绝对是一种文化冲击，是我还没有完全准备好的事情。
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
什么是政治，除了说服公众投票支持这个，支持那个，忍受这些为了那些承诺?
Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.
部分原因在于这种在公共场合接触的方式。我有一个与众不同的外表——部分原因是我戴的眼镜——人们似乎一看到我就会想起我。
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?
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
这种作为私营公司的坚持之所以继续下去，是因为它确保了拥有巨大公共权力的人享有最大程度的匿名和保密，这些人害怕公众知道他们的活动是一种罪恶，几乎和通货膨胀一样严重。
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.
永远不要用“听众”这个词。“除非诗人是为了钱而写作，否则公众的想法在我看来就是错误的。诗人没有“听众”。他们一直在和一个人说话。