'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

  • -- Alexander Pope 亚历山大·波普

你的忠告仍然是真的,这还不够;直率的事实比善意的谎言更有害。

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The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

这就是新闻界的雇工,他们的工作就是鼓舞人民的精神。他们说了那么长时间的谎话,耍了那么多花招,最后他们的预算似乎是完全空了。

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

一个真正的领导者必须有一个真正的开放政策,这样他的人民才不会因为任何原因害怕接近他。

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

人们说我是个酒鬼,但事实并非如此,因为我只在工作时喝酒,而且我是个工作狂。

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

坦率地说,我想我不太喜欢政界人士。

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

我庄严地发誓我没有做什么好事。