Convention was nothing to him; that she was of royal blood was still less. What other man would have dared her wrath as he had done? Nobility, she thought, was based on the observance of certain laws. Around the central star were lesser stars, from which the central star drew its radiance. Whenever one of these stars deviates from its orbit, the glory of the central star is diminished. To accept the love of the Englishman would be a blow to the pride of Austria. She smiled. "Monsieur," she said, in a hesitating voice, "Monsieur, I am indeed a woman.英文原著 · 《The Puppet Crown》
The magistrates of the township, as well as those of the county, are bound to communicate their acts to the central government in a very small number of predetermined cases. *o But the central government is not represented by an individual whose business it is to publish police regulations and ordinances enforcing the execution of the laws; to keep up a regular communication with the officers of the township and the county; to inspect their conduct, to direct their actions, or to reprimand their faults. There is no point which serves as a centre to the radii of the administration.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
[Footnote s: China appears to me to present the most perfect instance of that species of well-being which a completely central administration may furnish to the nations among which it exists. Travellers assure us that the Chinese have peace without happiness, industry without improvement, stability without strength, and public order without public morality. The condition of society is always tolerable, never excellent. I am convinced that, when China is opened to European observation, it will be found to contain the most perfect model of a central administration which exists in the universe.]英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
The Federal system is not only deficient in every kind of centralized administration, but the central government itself is imperfectly organized, which is invariably an influential cause of inferiority when the nation is opposed to other countries which are themselves governed by a single authority. In the Federal Constitution of the United States, by which the central government possesses more real force, this evil is still extremely sensible. An example will illustrate the case to the reader.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
It is incorrect to assert that centralization was produced by the French Revolution; the revolution brought it to perfection, but did not create it. The mania for centralization and government regulations dates from the time when jurists began to take a share in the government, in the time of Philippele-Bel; ever since which period they have been on the increase. In the year 1775, M. de Malesherbes, speaking in the name of the Cour des Aides, said to Louis XIV: - *d英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》
These movements would be all pursued in one common direction, and it follows, from well-known mechanical principles, that each of the subsidiary masses, besides participating in the general revolution around the central body, would also possess a rotation around its axis, which must likewise be performed in the same direction. Around the subsidiary bodies other objects still smaller would be formed, just as they themselves were formed relatively to the great central mass.英文原著 · 《Great Astronomers》
I know. We didn't do any of the romantic things I had planned, ...like having a picnic in Central Park and, you know, a coffee at Central Perk.美剧 · 《Friends》
We take the J train to the 4, the 4 to Grand Central, change trains to Riverdale美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
No, but there's a dicey underpass at Grand Central where we might get shot.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
That the particular is central to finding the uniqueness of place that the particular is central to finding the uniqueness of place演讲 · 《Building uniqueness ~ Moshe Safdie》