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 life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.
一个人的一生是由一系列的人、工作和困惑组成的。我们都是自己的策展人。
At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.
在这个特殊的时刻，我可能对自己更满意。刚才我玩得很开心。
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
如果上帝没有让吃喝成为一种必需，也没有什么比吃喝更令人厌烦的了。
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
原谅自己吗?不，那没有用:我们必须被原谅。但我们只能相信这是可能的，如果我们自己能原谅。
I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
我不是个擅于休息的人。我假期过得很糟糕。它来自那段我不工作的时期。那真是最糟糕的部分。
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
人是败坏的神。当人是清白的时候，生命就会更长久，就会进入不朽，就像我们轻轻地从梦中醒来一样。
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
没有虚荣心，没有卖弄风情，没有好奇心，一句话，没有堕落，女人就不会是女人。她的优雅主要在于她的脆弱。
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
对一流智力的测试是同时在头脑中持有两种相反观点的能力，同时仍能发挥作用。
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year.
哦，让我们今天在花中得到快乐; 让我们不要想得那么远 如同不确定的收获;让我们在这里 一切都简单地发生在春天。
To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
在敦提向一名男子扔鞋，相当于在伦敦亲吻他的脸颊和拥抱。邓迪是一个非常不同的地方;他们有自己的规则。
I'm not mean.
我不吝啬。
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
在所有的财产中，朋友是最宝贵的。