英語學習筆記

• 2009-11-05
• 中國時報

    　“Popularity is fleeting. It’s not real.”--George W. Bush

    　「聲望稍縱即逝。一點也不真實。」

• 2009-10-20
• 中國時報

    　”To work out how to operate a television set, you practically have to make love to the thing.”

• 2009-10-01
• 中國時報

    　“The publicity surrounding it was so traumatic that what he did to me seemed to pale in comparison.”--Samantha Geimer

    　「這樁事件引發的眾目睽睽，令我非常痛苦。相較之下，當年他對我做的事，反而不算什麼。」

• 2009-09-28
• 中國時報

     　“I think it doesn’t look good, right? I made a mistake. Leaders stand up and take accountability for their mistakes, and that’s exactly what I’m doing.”--Meg Whitman

    　「我想這紀錄不大好看，對吧？我確實犯了錯誤。但是領導人會為自己的錯誤負起責任，我正是如此。」

     　“There are 1 million black men in the prison system, and on Thursday I became one of them. I would sooner have believed the sky was going to fall from the heavens than I would have believed this could happen to me.”--Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    　「在監獄體系中有一百萬個黑人，周四這天我成為其中之一。我寧可相信天會塌下來，也不願相信這種事會發生在我身上。」

     　“Let me also remind our Chinese friends that China, too, has significant economic interests at stake in its relationship with Australia and with its other commercial partners around the world.”--Kevin Rudd

    　「我也要提醒我們的中國朋友，中國與澳洲以及與世界各主要商業夥伴國家的關係，對中國的經濟利益同樣有重大影響。」

    　“I never understood where the satisfaction is when you’re missing the pleasure of conquest.”

    　--Silvio Berlusconi

    　“There has got to be transparency, there has got to be proper audit.”--Gordon Brown

    　「（作業）必須透明，也要有適當的稽核。」

    　”Britain trades on a mythical reputation of democracy. The more you dig into the reality, the less you believe that myth.”--Heather Brooke

  　“This is a really good man who really did a very, very bad thing, but if you take that piece out, I do have a perfect marriage.”--Elizabeth Edwards

     　“I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law, and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage.”--John Baldacci

    　“Farmers are going to be the ones driving Lamborghinis, and the traders are going to have to learn to drive tractors.”--Jim Rogers

    　“People smugglers are engaged in the world’s most evil trade and they should all rot in jail because they represent the absolute scum of the earth.” --Kevin Rudd