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。
A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone.
据说一个善良而真实的女人就像一把克雷莫纳小提琴:随着年龄的增长,小提琴的价值会增加,音调也会变甜。
My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.
我对这项运动的热情来自马赛这个城市本身。不幸的是,我不能像我想的那样回到那里,因为我在这里和国外打了很多比赛。
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
当我们让嫉妒和仇恨的恶习深入我们的本性时,中等收入的人对自己造成的伤害可能是巨大财富所造成的最大伤害。
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
要寻求永恒的道路,我们必须先知道没有名字的品质。在一个人、一座城市、一座建筑或一片荒野中,有一种核心品质是生命和精神的根本准则。这种品质是客观和精确的,但却无法命名。
If the moment is everything, then everything is time.
如果那一刻就是一切,那么一切就是时间。
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
任何让你热血沸腾的事情都是值得做的。
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
一张好的照片是充分表达一个人对所拍事物的感受,在最深层的意义上。
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
自由地看,英语是每一种方言、种族和时间范围的增加和发展,是所有语言的自由和紧凑的组成。
It's the journey, not the destination, that changes us!
改变我们的不是目的地,而是过程!
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
工作不断扩大,以填补完成工作所需的时间。
Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
没有人能完全成为我。有时甚至连我都做不到。
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
我宁愿有一个因好奇而开放的心灵,也不愿有一个因信仰而封闭的心灵。