Who has the authority to say to anyone aside from "This is a good idea."

谁能有指挥他人的权威呢？,人们只能说说这些，像“这是个好主意“

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I think "American Idol" was a really good idea to have American idol.

我想用《美国偶像》节目选出美国偶像确实是个好主意。

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I mean, it's such an obviously good idea.

谁都能看出来这是个好主意。

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Not normally a good idea.

正式来说这不是个好主意。

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If one were faced with starvation, then seeking out fat as we discussed before, is a pretty good idea, but if one is not deprived of calories, then having fat may not be so helpful.

如果一个人面临饥饿,像我们之前讨论的去寻求脂肪,是个好主意,但是如果一个人不消耗热量,那么摄取脂肪就没什么用了

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I don't think that's a good idea.

我觉得那不是个好主意。

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So Christine is correct in saying that once we delete the strategies 1 and 10 once we realize that those positions are not going to be chosen by our sophisticated candidates then we realize that probably choosing 2 isn't a good idea either.

克里斯汀说的很对,一旦我们剔除了策略1和10,一旦我们意识到,不会有人选择这些立场时,我们会发现,选立场2或9可能也不是个好主意了

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It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

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Finally, Milton's poem is late by virtue of the simple fact that it's written in the form of an epic. An epic might have seemed like a great idea when Milton was nineteen, but by the time Milton gets actually around to writing it, it's an entirely superannuated, utterly outdated form.

最后，弥尔顿这么晚才写这首诗是因为,这是一首史诗，在弥尔顿19岁的时候,写首史诗看起来可能是个好主意，但到了弥尔顿真正要写的时候，史诗已经是一种完全落伍过时的诗体了。

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And you know it's not the necessarily a good idea to do it, you start with "The thing is".

你心里清楚这么做并不一定是个好主意，你就可以用“The thing is”来回答他们。

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