I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

  • -- Ben Shalom Bernanke 本·伯南克

我向本委员会保证,如果我获得任命,我将严格独立于所有政治影响之外。对该机构有效运作和实现其授权目标的能力至关重要。

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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

我发现并向自己证实的是,歌剧真的很喜欢鲜艳的色彩,你需要一些大胆、野蛮、不可预测、充满激情的东西。你不可能围绕着一些无声的窃窃私语上演一部两小时的歌剧。

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

这是一个很有天赋,很有能力,很有爱心的人;但这一计划被扼杀并流产了。我非常喜欢那个角色。

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

只有当测量、观察和描述得到他人的独立确认时,才能被认为是科学的。

I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.

我已经知道我有能力把自己从仇恨中解放出来,我认为这是我最重要的胜利。

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

别人越是向你保证一切都好,你就越能确信事情并非如此。

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

不是遵守义务,而是自由本身是保证忠诚的保证。