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。
Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?
我在想,会不会有这样一个人,我们可以雇他来搞清楚我们想要什么?在我对我们生活中亲密部分的外包进行研究时,我是否已经到了最后一个关键时刻,还是已经到了荒谬的市场前沿?
My heart stops when you look at me.
当你看着我的时候,我的心都停止跳动了。
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。
A certain death of an artist is overconfidence
艺术家的某种死亡就是过度自信
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
在这个世界上,除了死亡和税收,没有什么是可以肯定的。
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
不是每个人都应该旅行;聪明的人越变越好,愚蠢的人越变越坏。
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
我从被歧视中学会了同情。所有发生在我身上的不幸都教会了我同情。
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
钱从来不会使人幸福,将来也不会。一个人拥有的越多,他想要的就越多。它不是填补一个真空,而是制造一个真空。
I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
我喜欢挑战,创造真正的现代服装,在那里一个女人的个性和自我意识被揭示。我想让人们看到裙子,但要关注女人。
Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.
我在你们那里所听见的,比这更美。我与你们所擘开的,比这更美。我既没有你,一切都是荒凉的。曾经那么美丽的一切都已不复存在。
It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.
只是如果你不是破坏性的,所有的事情似乎都在无休止地重复——不是好事而是平淡无奇的事情——平凡的事情——越弱的事情不断重复——越强的事情被压抑、压制和隐藏。
Adventure is not outside a man; it is within
冒险不是一个人的身外之物;它是在