It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

建立良好的声誉需要很多好的行为,而只有一个坏的行为才能失去它。

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My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

我的名声有点被夸大了。报纸上写的东西,然后复制,然后翻倍。我从未否认这一点的原因之一,是因为我觉得这很有趣。但为了获得更多的私人生活,我也为自己构建了这样一个形象。

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

如今,学生们来到这所大学时,对我们的政治传统既无知又冷嘲热讽,既缺乏必要的资金来从中获得灵感,也缺乏对它的严肃批评。

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

我们有义务与创造、与我们的资本和谐相处……神的创造。我们需要非常小心地管理和工作。

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

一个人的名誉就像一个影子,它在你之前是巨大的,在它之后是渺小的。

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

没有人能把自己的安全建立在另一个人的高贵之上。

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

如果你能把生意做得足够大,那是值得尊敬的。

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

把过去的事带到现在需要很长时间。

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

喜剧需要非常特殊的技巧,特殊的技巧。