1.Contrary to popular opinion, women don't only want to talk about themselves; they also want to see what's going on with you.
与大家通常所想的不同，女人在约会的时候不仅仅是想聊聊自己的问题；她们也会想要了解你。
2.A maverick, John McCain tackled campaign reform, military reform, spending reform. He took on presidents, partisans and popular opinion.
作为一个特立独行的人，约翰•麦凯恩推动竞选改革、军事改革、拨款改革。他接受总统、党员和大众的观点。
3.When popular opinion is nearly unanimous, contrary thinking tends to be most profitable.
大众意见盛行时，个人观点却是最实用的。
4.Researchers discovered that contrary to popular opinion the brain is not always entirely asleep or awake but parts of it can go "offline" .
研究人员发现，睡着并不是大脑神经全在休息，醒着也不是大脑神经全在工作，而只是部分神经“断开”。这一发现是与普通观点相悖。
5.Contrary to the popular opinion, this was the work not of any one man but of several.
与流行的意见相反，这不是一个人的工作成果，而是好几个人的。
6.It's worth pausing on that for a second, because voting, contrary to popular opinion, doesn't tend to change all that much as you age.
这个发现值得我们对此多花点时间，因为与主流观点相背的投票似乎并没有随着年龄的增加而改变多少。
7.I am willing to take the risk of standing up against a popular opinion if I do not believe it to be right.
如果我认为普遍为大家接受的观点是不正确的，那么我也愿意承担风险站出来反驳它。
8.Contrary to popular opinion, life in a university business school is no easier than one in industry or commerce.
与流行观点相反，大学商学院的生活并不比企业或商界的生活轻松。
9.All this military action had an important effect on American popular opinion.
这一切军事行动已对美国的民意的重要作用。
10.Even if what you're saying is valuable, there is no point in reading if it doesn't say anything different than the popular opinion.
即使你要写的内容非常有价值，也要做到你的视角与别人不同。如果你的文章观点与大众观点毫无二致，那么对读者也毫无吸引力可言。