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。
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
早上浪费一个小时,你会花一整天去寻找它。
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
为了成功,你必须失败,这样你就知道下次不要做什么。
The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
最强大的是那些放弃自己的时代,成为未来生活的一部分的人。最强壮和最稀有的。
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
所有的真理都经历三个阶段。首先,它遭到了嘲笑。第二,它遭到强烈反对。第三,它被认为是不言而喻的。
I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.
我不想让它变得那么自觉或做作,但它真的是我把自己变成了一个倾听者,这样我就能听到她的声音。
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.
但与此同时,关于他们的老生常谈却是正确的:每个角色都是自己故事中的英雄。每个人对自己的行为都有令人信服的理由。给这些人发声很有趣。
Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.
抱最好的希望;做最坏的打算。
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
以旧换旧,以新换新。
You cannot travel within and stand still without.
你不能既在里面旅行,又在外面站着不动。
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
一个好妻子总是原谅她的丈夫当她错了。
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
智慧的真正标志不是知识,而是想象力。
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
财富不在于拥有大量的财产,而在于拥有很少的欲望。