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。
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
想成为别人是对你自己的一种浪费。
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
人们总是说时间能改变一切,但实际上你必须自己去改变它们。
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
技术进步只是为我们提供了更有效的倒退手段。
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
当提到自由时,我们必须始终谨慎地观察,这是不是真正的主张个人利益,从而被指定。
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
如果哥本哈根是一个人,这个人应该慷慨,美丽,年老,但有才华。一个人有一定的争吵倾向,充满想象力,对新事物充满欲望,对旧事物充满敬意——一个能很好地照顾人和事的人。
Creativity takes courage.
创造力需要勇气。
No man is happy but by comparison.
没有人不通过比较而幸福。
'Fie upon this quiet life!' I want work.
“别再过这种平静的生活了!”“我要工作。
The price of greatness is responsibility.
伟大的代价是责任。
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
在意别人的想法,你就永远是他们的囚犯。
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
他们的不是回答,他们的不是推理,他们的是行动和死亡。
Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.
智者在有话要说时才说话,愚者说话是因为他们不得不说。