A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
把好句子,读进生活里。
一句英文,一种视角。慢慢读,总有一句与你共鸣。
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
人类所做的、想过的或曾经做过的一切,都像魔法一样保存在书页之中。
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
作为个人和国家,我们现在正遭受着社会自恋的折磨。我们祖先深爱的回声,原始美洲,已经被遗弃了。我们爱上了自己的形象,爱上了自己创造的形象,而这些形象原来就是我们自己的形象。
How can you worship a homeless man on sunday and ignore one on monday?
你怎么能在星期天敬拜一个无家可归的人,而在星期一却忽视一个呢?
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
如果你做你一直做的事,你就会得到你一直得到的。
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
浪漫在小说中是很美好的,但生活中的浪漫总是一件令人忧郁的事情。没有故事可讲的人是最幸福的。
I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.
我曾经因为体重和锻炼而痛打自己,无论我做什么,我从来没有对自己感觉良好。我决定接受自己,我知道我很好。
Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
老实说,很多人认为我是世界上销售数百万张唱片的冠军,这是每个人都想要的生活,但我从来没有享受过我的任何成功。
Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.
相信它并不总是在你的手中,或者事情并不总是按照你的计划进行,但是你必须相信,有一个为你而设的计划,无论如何,你必须跟随自己的内心,相信自己。
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
老男人宣战。但必须战斗和死亡的是年轻人。
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
要真正地笑,你必须能够忍受你的痛苦,并与之玩耍!
There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
这些工作中涉及的自我意识比人们可能意识到的要多一些。
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.
我花在广告上的钱有一半被浪费了;问题是,我不知道是哪一半。