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。
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
树林里分出两条路,而我——我选择了人迹罕至的那条路,这使一切都不同了。
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
剧作家认为纯粹的事件,涉及人类的行为,比任何评论都更引人注目。
You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
你以为你一直在看东西,但你不是在看东西,你是在看你的大脑通过光和颜色在解释什么。谁知道其他人看到了什么?
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
几个世纪以来,死刑常常伴随着野蛮的改良,一直试图遏制犯罪;然而,犯罪依然存在。为什么?因为人的本能在交战,并不像法律所宣称的那样,是处于平衡状态的恒常力量。
My sun sets to rise again.
我的太阳又要升起来了。
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
万有引力不是人们坠入爱河的原因。
'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
“神的计划”常常是人的计划的幌子,是不充分、无知和邪恶的掩护。
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
做一个穷人是困难的,但是在一个金钱的国度里做一个贫穷的民族是最困难的。
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
如果一个人郁郁寡欢,就由他自己去好了。没有人有权利在社会上大声疾呼,更糟糕的是,他看起来像是在压抑悲伤。
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
我要提醒你们,捍卫自由的极端主义不是罪恶!我还要提醒你们,追求正义的中庸不是美德。
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
对于一个失去家园的人来说,写作变成了生活的地方。
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
名誉是一种懒惰和最虚假的强加;得不偿失,失之不应得。