A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
公共
Public
Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
流行音乐是一种时尚，时尚来来去去。随着公众品味的改变，他们会让你退休。
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
我第一次在公众场合吹奏小号时，我吹奏了海军陆战队的赞美诗。我听起来糟透了。
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
我们都有私人病痛。麻烦制造者是那些需要公共治疗其私人疾患的人。
How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?
我怎么才能让一个人飞起来呢?我怎么才能让公众相信一个演员可以飞呢?
I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
我收听国家公共广播电台，至少对我来说，这是对事物最全面的看法。
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.
我受不了公众的关注，我就是受不了。当然，如果可以的话，我可以写点东西来代替。
If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be.
如果你把公众放在你的掌心，你就能确定他们想去哪里。
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。
If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.
如果你听到你喜欢的东西，而你又有一半像公众一样，他们很可能也会喜欢。
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
真实的人类话语发生在许多语境中，而不是在某种统一的公共论坛中。
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
这是亲密和公众的结合，我发现成为桂冠诗人是如此令人兴奋。
A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
女人在公共场合应该坐在丈夫身旁，保持沉默，确保帽子戴得正。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive.
本周，我提议立法加强我们的公开档案法，让公众更安全、更快、更全面地访问我们的公开档案。
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。
But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.
但我很喜欢公众的注意力持续时间很短。如果我有一段时间没有看电视，我能感觉到。人们不太注意你，这是很明显的。
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。
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。