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 smile is the best make-up any girl can wear.
微笑是任何女孩能化的最美的妆。
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
当我放下了现在的自己,我变成了可能成为的自己。
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
教学的艺术是帮助发现的艺术。
All life is an experiment the more experiments you make the better.
生活就是一个实验,你做的实验越多越好。
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
如果我们相信的事情和我们做的事情不一样,就不会有幸福。
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
我走得很慢,但是我从来不会后退。
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
勇气是怕得要死,但还是要振作起来。
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
我们是言外之意的主人,但我们是那些脱口而出的话的奴隶。
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
那支小蜡烛的光射得多远啊!所以在这个淘气的世界里闪耀着善良的光芒。
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
地狱里最热的地方是留给那些在重大道德危机中保持中立的人的。
If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
如果你问某人,“你希望生活中有什么?”他们不会说“幸福”。我会回答“兴奋、知识”,上帝知道——我的意思是,很多很多不同的东西,但肯定不是“幸福”。这似乎是一个外国的概念,希望什么具体的和独特的。
Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigality and misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not only affords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands...but...he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.
资本因节俭而增加,因挥霍和不当行为而减少。一个节俭的人每年节省下来的钱,不仅能养活更多有生产力的人,而且……他把它当作一项永久的基金,以便在今后的任何时候保持人数相等。