Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

  • -- Evan Esar 埃文·伊萨尔

统计学的定义:从可靠的数字中得出不可靠的事实的科学。

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As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations.

作为美铁提供服务的个人受益人,作为国会选区的代表,我非常支持为这个至关重要的行业提供继续运营所需的资金。

We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told.

我们从小到大都是听着社会上伟大人物的故事长大的,随着年龄的增长,你必须质疑别人告诉你的故事,并判断这些伟大人物是否真的像别人告诉你的那样伟大。

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

那些忘记善与恶,只想知道事实的人比那些通过扭曲自己欲望的媒介来看待世界的人更有可能获得善。

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

如果你等到你的孩子上了高中才突然告诉他们没有很多钱供他们上学,他们就没有太多的选择了。

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

建立在人类基础上的希望、人为的哲学或任何制度总是放错地方……因为这些事情不可靠,转瞬即逝。

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

永远不要被逼沉默。永远不要让自己成为受害者。不要接受任何人对你生活的定义;定义自己。

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

对于一个孩子来说,成年人最明显的一个事实就是,他们已经忘记了作为一个孩子是什么样子的。

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

奖项意义重大,但并不能说明一切。棒球界的人对我来说比统计数字更重要。

In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.

在任何一个小镇,体育对高中来说都是非常重要的,而我并不擅长体育。

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

如果你在字典里查新闻的定义,它不是你在电视上看到的。

As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.

当我开始积极主动地制作自己的东西时,我开始得到其他的角色。

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

在古代,他们没有统计数据,所以他们不得不求助于谎言。

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

那时,我在数字的世界里如鱼得水,而不是在价值的世界里。