Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

没有什么比一句格言更没用的了。

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There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black."

有两个纽曼定律。第一个是“当你倒着的时候,踩刹车是没有用的。”第二个是“当事情看起来最黑暗的时候,它们就会变黑。”

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.

在回答时,我只能辩解说,对一项似乎与以往调查的总基调相矛盾的发现,人们自然会很犹豫地接受。

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

没有什么比一群无用的暴民更愚蠢,更容易发怒了。

I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.

一般来说,我并不喜欢重做。它们主要是可怕的。