The idea behind this most fortunate if true of principles is that in intentionally serving one's own interests one unintentionally serves the interests of society as a whole.
这个说法——如果是真理，那真是幸运至极——背后的思想是：当一个人主动追求自己利益的时候，他的行为客观地对社会整体有益。
The idea is noble, and clever, but it needs scale for the true potential of network effects to kick in.
该想法新颖，并且聪明，但这需要真实潜在的网络效应规模才能产生作用。
It's a clever idea - that your true and radiant self lives deep within you.
这是个聪明的想法——在你的内心深处，躺着一个真实的闪闪发光的自己。
The concept of “poetic truth” appealed to her—the idea of something not literally true but nevertheless ideally true.
“诗的真”的观念召唤她——某些事物的观念不但要在表面上的是真实的，而且从理想方面也要真实。
If you want to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your mind of all the false purposes you've been taught (including the idea that you may have no purpose at all).
如果你想找到你真正的人生目标，那你就必须首先清除你心中所有错误的目标(这也包括你可能没有任何目标)。
This is true of your work on anosognosia - the idea of trying to devise a set of experiments to determine whether someone is pretending to not-know something.
你在病感失认症上所做的工作都是真实的——试着去发明一套试验来验证某人是不是假装不了解某些事情。
The idea, such as it was, seems to have been that the Internet would free us of the burden of our public identities so we could be our true, authentic selves online.
这个概念，似乎是这样的，互联网释放我们在现实社会中真实身份的压力，让我们能够在网上做回我们真实的自己。
So in reality, not implementing that idea right now is the only true way to waste it.
实际上，不去实现想法才是真正在浪费它。
This idea may earn Franzen another all-American kicking - "Oprah-Hating Writer Now Says Freedom Overrated!" - but it is not only true; it is also important.
这一思想也许会再次使美国人齐心协力，给弗兰岑狠狠一“踢”——反对奥普拉的作家现在又说对《自由》评价过高——但弗兰岑的思想不仅正确而且重要。
DeveloperWorks: So the idea that it's only appropriate for senior level developers is just not true?
developerWorks：所以说那种认为它只适合于那些高级开发者的想法是不正确的？
The idea behind FOAFbot is that if you can verify that a fact is recorded by several different people (whom you trust), you are more likely to believe it to be true.
FOAFbot背后的思想是，如果您能够验证不同的几个人（您所信任的人）都记录了一个事实，那么您很可能相信这是真实的。
I have no idea if this story is true or false, parable or memoir - but it has stuck with me ever since I read it years ago.
我不知道这个故事是真实的还是虚构的，是寓言还是传纪，但在数年前看到这个故事时深深震撼着我。
Now, I had no idea how much of this story was true, but some of it sounded right; Steve Jobs immediately seeing the value in tech breakthroughs is a common theme in tech lore.
今天，我不清楚这个故事的真实程度，但其中一些听起来是真的；我也不知道史蒂夫·乔布斯是否立即明白技术突破的价值是技术知识的共同主题。
I knew he was nice from his films, but I had no idea how nice he would be. This has really been a dream come true.
我从他的电影知道他人不错，但我怎么也没有想到他会是如此平易近人，我的梦想终于成真。
"The idea that minor earthquakes release energy and thus make things better is a common misperception. But seismologists know it's not true," she says.
小地震释放能量因此把情况会变得更好的观点是一种普遍的误解，但地震学家知道这不是真的。
To some, the idea of a technology that can arrange chance meetings with their friends will seem like a dream come true.
能安排自己与朋友机缘巧遇的技术，对于一些人来说简直像是梦想成真。
The original plan was to provide "a good art publication with more free and wild writing, but it seems the idea is too good to be true," Han was said to have written previously.
据称，韩寒曾表示说，最初的计划是要将杂志办成一部“写作更加自由、更加恣意的文艺刊物，但愿望太过美好，无法实现”。
It's true that nobody has any good idea of how to test string theory, but who's to say someone won't wake up tomorrow morning and think of one?
确实，怎样检验弦理论，现在没有什么好主意，但是谁又能说某人明早醒来时不会想出一个好主意呢？
The idea has proved true for a range of species such as insects, birds, pigs, sheep, dogs, mink and deer.
这个观点在诸如昆虫、鸟类、羊、猪、狗、貂、鹿等一些其他物种中已被证实。
Working with an unusual repository can actually add a little fun to the mapping process; but that's assuming that content integration is your idea of fun, which may be true only for me.
使用一种不寻常的存储库确实可以为映射过程带来一点儿乐趣；我认为内容集成是乐趣，但是您可能不这么想。
Yes, it's true that it may feel good to "sweat out" your hangover, but it's never a smart idea to run when you're dehydrated.
也许喝醉后出汗的感觉会很好，但是当你脱水之后再去跑步，绝对不是一个万全之策。
The same is true of macro-prudential regulation, the idea that a group of wise men can focus on systemic risk, rather than get bogged down in the details of individual firms’ finances.
宏观审慎监控也是一样。一群聪明人的智慧能够专注于系统风险，而非拘泥于个人公司金融的细节之中。
The same is true of macro-prudential regulation, the idea that a group of wise men can focus on systemic risk, rather than get bogged down in the details of individual firms' finances.
宏观审慎监控也是一样。一群聪明人的智慧能够专注于系统风险，而非拘泥于个人公司金融的细节之中。
True: yet I should scarcely fancy Mr. Rochester would entertain an idea of the sort. But you eat nothing: you have scarcely tasted since you began tea.
那是事实，但我不会认为罗切斯特先生会抱有那种想法。——可是你什么也没吃，从开始吃茶点到现在，你几乎没有尝过一口。
It will clearly point out any flaws and guarantee that the character remains true to your original idea of who they are.
它将明确指出任何缺陷，并确保该人物忠于你的本意。
To counteract such ways there have been further teachings that have promoted the idea of finding the true self within.
为了抵消这种方式已经有了更深远的教导，那就是提出找到“内在真实自我”的想法。
Once an idea or a belief about ourselves goes into this picture it becomes "true", as far as we personally are concerned.
一旦某种关于我们自己的想法和信念进入到这幅图象当中，就我们自己而言，它即变成了“真实”。
Opportunity cost expresses the idea that for every choice, the true economic cost is the next best opportunity.
机会成本表达了这样的理念：对于每一个“选择”，真是的经济成本是“下一个”最好的选择。
Her true mission is an environmental one, and it came to her before the idea of rowing oceans did.
她的真正使命是一个环境之一，它来到之前，赛艇海洋主意，她没有。
Her true mission is an environmental one, and it came to her before the idea of rowing oceans did.
她的真正使命是一个环境之一，它来到之前，赛艇海洋主意，她没有。
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