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。
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
不要把一次失败和最后的失败混为一谈。
No matter how stout one beam, it cannot support a house.
无论一根梁多么粗壮，也支撑不了一座房子。
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
小心小开销。小洞沉大船。
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
一点点真诚是危险的，太真诚则绝对是致命的。
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness.
女权主义的议程是基本的:它要求女性不要被迫在公共正义和个人幸福之间做出“选择”。
I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
我看起来比实际上要忙得多，因为我实际上是一个相当散漫、随机的人，我会打几场演出，然后消失一段时间。
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
教育不在于你有多少记忆，甚至不在于你知道多少。它能够区分你知道的和你不知道的。
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
任何直接影响一个人的东西，都会间接地影响所有人。在你成为你应该成为的人之前，我永远不会成为我应该成为的人。这是现实相互关联的结构。
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
事实上，人们认为当你卖了很多书，你不是一个严肃的作家，这是对读者的极大侮辱。当人们试图说这样的话时，我有点生气。
Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.
再加上公众的注意力持续时间太短了，如果一个溜冰者不趁热打铁……不是说人们会忘记你，而是他们不再关心你了。
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
成功的天赋无非是做你能做好的事，做你能做好的事，而不考虑名声。如果它真的来了，它就会来，因为它是应得的，而不是因为它被追求。
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
所有的有偿工作都会吸收并贬低人的心智。