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。
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
一个杰出的人想要逃避责难是愚蠢的,而受责难的影响是软弱的表现。古代所有的杰出人物,甚至世界上各个时代的人,都经历过这种激烈的迫害。
Only great fools remain ungrateful.
只有大傻瓜才会忘恩负义。
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
许多时候,如果环境不允许,一个人不可能成为他想成为的那种人。
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
当某样东西超出了你的理解能力时,它就会变得很神奇。
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
我若不为自己,谁为我呢?如果我不为别人,我是谁?如果不是现在,什么时候?
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
不管你多么冷静地去评判,父母的教养最终会产生奇怪的行为,我说的不是孩子。他们的行为总是正常的。
It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
只有真正的军人才能留在音乐行业,依靠摆在我面前的东西生活,并且能够一直生存下去,因为这并不容易。
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
在每个时代,“美好的往昔”都是一个神话。当时没有人认为他们是优秀的。因为每一个时代都有一些危机,在经历过这些危机的人看来是无法忍受的。
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
我们是时间的臣民,而时间的出价已不复存在。
When one burns one's bridges, what a nice fire it makes.
当一个人烧了自己的桥,这是多么好的火啊。
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
无论我们的灵魂是什么做成的,他的和我的是一模一样的。
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
一个敢于浪费一小时时间的人没有发现生命的价值。