The Romans chose a republic, as a "public thing", where representatives could make trade-offs for the common good and were accountable for the sum of their achievements.
罗马人追崇“共和政体”，在这一体制下，代表为了共同利益而做一番“权衡”，也不是什么藏着掖着的事，他们对自己的功败垂成也要负起责任。
Being learned in some branch of human knowledge is one thing; living in "public and illustrious thoughts," as Emerson would say, is something else.
在人类知识的某个分支中被研究是一回事；如爱默生所说，生活在“公众的和杰出的思想中”是另一回事。
Chefs such as Delia Smith, Nigel Slater, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay made the public realise that cooking— and eating— didn't have to be a boring thing.
迪莉娅·史密斯、奈杰尔·斯莱特、杰米·奥利弗和戈登·拉姆齐等厨师让公众意识到，烹饪或者说饮食不一定是一件无聊的事情。
I found that this ability to instantly shift my attention was often a good thing, like when passing time on public transportation.
我发现，拥有这种瞬间转移注意的能力通常是件好事，比如，在公共交通工具上消磨时间的时候。
Especially when you get home from school or work, or return from any other public places, the first thing you should do is to turn on the tap, pick up the soap and wash your hands completely.
尤其是当你从学校或下班回家，或从任何其它公共场所返回，首先要做的事情便是打开水龙头，拾起肥皂，彻底地洗干净手。
Unless life turns up on Mars, or somewhere even more unexpected, public interest in the whole thing is likely to wane.
除非火星或其他更让人无法预料到的地方出现生命，公众对整个太空事业的兴趣可能出现下降。
Another public rupture is the last thing they need as they try to coax Barack Obama into addressing their concerns more sympathetically than his often heedless predecessor.
他们所需要的最后一件事就是另一个公开的决裂当他们试图通过花言巧语哄骗奥巴马将他们的忧虑比他们的前任更具同情心。
Unless life turns up on Mars, or somewhere even more unexpected, public interest in the whole thing is likely to wane. And it is the public that pays for it all.
除非火星，或者其它不曾想到的地方出现生命，整件事情公众的兴趣正在减少，也正是公众为这一切买单。
Although the public discovery of our wonderful trail wasn't a good thing for my friends and me, it is a good thing when your open source trail gets discovered.
尽管大家发现了这条奇妙的小径对于我和我的朋友而言不是好事，但是，当您的开放源码项目被人发现时，那却是一件令人欣喜若狂的事情。
My parents were just happy I liked to read, and so I - in utter innocence - would wander into the public library and pick up any old thing.
我的父母只要我喜欢阅读就已经非常高兴了，因此我能够怀着赤子之心溜达到公共图书馆里拿起任何一本书来看。
Both countries tell a receptive public that national weakness is a thing of the past.
两国都告诉乐于接纳这类观点的公众，民族的软弱已成为历史。
It was essentially the kind of thing the professor was describing to me only it was open to the public.
这基本上就是那种只有公诸于众了之后教授才会给你讲的东西。
Speaking in public is most people s least favorite thing. The reason is that we re all afraid of making fools of ourselves.
很少有人喜欢在公共场合演讲，原因是我们都怕出洋相，越是重要的演讲心里越恐慌。
The first thing you need to do is access the FriendFeed public feed.
您要做的首要事情是访问FriendFeed的公共提要。
But in most countries, the survey found a strong sense of progress in treating and preventing H.I.V.Yet finding new drugs and other treatments for public health problems is one thing.
但在多数国家，调查发现在治疗和预防HIV方面都有所进展。然而，发现新药以及针对公众卫生健康问题的其他治疗方法是一件事。
Now that you know how to access Google Buzz activity feeds through the public REST API, look at doing the same thing from within a PHP application.
既然您已经知道如何通过公共RESTAPI访问GoogleBuzz活动提要，现在就来看从一个PHP应用程序中做这同一件事。
Some of Mr Abbas's critics are calling for him to step down; many of them castigate him and his team for saying one thing in public and another in private.
阿巴斯（Mr Abbas）的一些批评者已经要求他下台，他们当中的很多人批评阿巴斯（Mr Abbas）和他的团队在公开场合中说一套在私下里却做另一套。
A civil penalty is a fine. From a public perspective getting a notice of violation is not a good thing.
一个民事处罚就是罚款，从一个公众的角度，得到违规的通知不是一件好事。
No bad thing to get the public finances in hand before then.
在此之前公共财政方面不会有太多的坏消息。
Now that the debates are over it will be good to return to normal service, where the public speak, and sometimes, unless they are carefully chosen, even say the wrong thing.
现在争论终于结束了，服务会有一个好的扭转，回归到公众所说的正常形式。当然，这也要视情况而定，有时候他们说的也不全是正确的。
Although parking enforcers no longer operate as bounty hunters, and wheel-clamping private vigilantes will soon be a thing of the past too, the public has yet to notice.
尽管停车管理执法者不再是赏金猎人，锁车轮私人卫士也将很快成为历史，但公众还没有注意到这一点。
The other thing that strikes you is the contrast between Franzen the writer and person and Franzen the public figure.
给我们留下深刻印象的第二件事即，做为作家和个人的弗兰岑与作为公众人物的弗兰岑之间的显著差别。
He realized too late that "there's no such thing as shovel-ready projects" when it comes to public works.
他太晚地认识到“没有任何可以一锤定音的计划”，尤其是当它转变成公共事务的时候。
If you are a public company, the important thing is you have to do all of the disclosure that Louis Brandeis would have liked; you have to file regular forms with the SEC, disclosing information.
作为一家上市公司，你必须公布所有必要信息，就像是路易斯·布兰代斯曾希望的那样，你必须定期向证交会上交文件，披露公司的信息。
It's a Norwegian thing-what other country would build public crypts around its most beloved boats and enshrine them for the ages?
这实在是件有挪威特色的事情，还有其他国家会给心爱的船只建个公墓并且长年供奉着它们吗？
The important thing to understand is that you don't need to make all of your accessors public.
要明白重要的事情是不需要使所有的读写方法具有公有可视性。
The important thing to understand is that you don't need to make all of your accessors public.
要明白重要的事情是不需要使所有的读写方法具有公有可视性。
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