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英语名人名言:Common Sense 常识
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  • Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

    Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)

    Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed1.

    Don Wood

    The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

    Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"

    Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

    Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)

    [Common sense] is the best sense I know of.

    Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)

    The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

    Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875

    Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

    Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

    Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing2.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Art,' 1841

    If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

    Tom Stoppard (1937 - )

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    1 fixed [fɪkst] JsKzzj   第8级
    adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
    参考例句:
    • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet? 你们俩选定婚期了吗?
    • Once the aim is fixed, we should not change it arbitrarily. 目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
    2 dealing [ˈdi:lɪŋ] NvjzWP   第10级
    n.经商方法,待人态度
    参考例句:
    • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing. 该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
    • His fair dealing earned our confidence. 他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

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