The popular opinion quickly grew that the Titanic was indestructible.

公众立刻开始普遍认同泰坦尼克号是坚不可摧的。

In school and in the workplace, the popular opinion is the idea of specialization.

在学校和工作单位，最普遍的观点就是“专业化”。

And I know that's not a popular opinion, but it's my two cents on the issue.

我知道不是什么主流观点 但我就这么想的。

How do you think popular opinion is lining up on both sides of this issue?

你认为民意会怎么看待这一问题的两面？

You know, that is a popular opinion today, I must say.

这简直是今天的民意。

This is becoming a popular opinion in universities around the world.

这一观点在世界各地的大学越来越受到认同。

But researchers also found that, contrary to popular opinion, supervising children's homework is not particularly helpful.

但研究人员还发现，与普遍看法相反，监督孩子的家庭作业并不是特别有帮助。

Popular opinion has it that saying this is less painful, and more acceptable, than saying 'We're going to have to fire thirty percent of the staff'.

一般的理解是，这样说会没有直接说‘我们要开除3%的员工’那么伤人并且会让人容易接受一点。

James Herriot, contrary to popular opinion, did not find it easy in his early days of, as he put it, “having a go at the writing game”.

跟大众的观点不同，正如吉米·哈利所言，自己早期在“写作游戏中的尝试” 并不怎么顺利。

In the face of the swelling tide of popular opinion in favor of quick, drastic, and positive action, McKinley chose first the way of diplomacy.

——面对要求迅速、果断、积极行动的民意高潮，麦金莱首先选择了外交方式。

Using confidence inspired by critical thinking and evidence, he was able to bravely make efficient decisions contrary to popular opinion at the time and so can you.

凭借批判性思维和证据激发的信心，他能够勇敢地做出与当时流行观点相反的有效决策，你也可以。

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

在每一个时代， 都有一股流行的观点， 它承载着它之前的一切， 并赋予了这个世纪一种家族特征。

In fact, the United  States had already developed a history for interventions across the globe, despite the  popular opinion that the United States was more isolationist in its early history.

事实上，尽管人们普遍认为美国在其早期历史中更加孤立主义，但美国已经制定了在全球范围内进行干预的历史。

Wegener's Theory of Continental Drift directly contradicted the popular opinion that Earth's continents had remained steady for millennia, and it took almost 50 years for his advocates to convince the larger scientific community.

韦格纳的大陆漂移理论直接与地球大陆几千年来保持稳定的流行观点相矛盾，他的支持者花了将近 50 年的时间才说服更大的科学界。

For example, early focus groups found that contrary to popular opinion at the time, wives often had more influence than their husbands when choosing which car to buy, so Chrysler shifted gears by marketing cars directly to women.

例如，早期的焦点小组发现， 与当时的流行观点相反，在选择购买哪种汽车时， 妻子往往比丈夫更有影响力，因此克莱斯勒改变了方向， 直接向女性推销汽车。