All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

所有重要的事实都是私人的事实。当它们公诸于众时,就不再成为真理;它们成为事实,或者至多成为公众性格的一部分;或者最坏的情况是,流行语。

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.

公共广播公司每年拨出一笔经费,由我们根据一项法定公式提供,其中绝大多数直接拨给公共广播电台和电视台。

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

我们创造了人物,并在深度维度上赋予他们活力,通过他们向我们不安的世界揭示,我们拥有的共同点远远多于那些分裂我们的东西。

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.

我们都知道,科学家在私生活中没有达到诚实的标准,但是,他们不会有意识地伪造他们的研究结果。

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

想象你自己是一个角色,一个模范人物,你决定以他为榜样,无论在公开场合还是私下里。

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

那些败坏公众思想的人就像那些从公众钱包里偷东西的人一样邪恶。

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

在我看来,政治中几乎没有事实,至少是可以确定的事实。

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

公共行为只不过是放大了的私人性格。

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

有时候偏执狂就是知道所有的事实。