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。
Choose your love, Love your choice
选择你的爱,爱你的选择
True friends stab you in the front.
真正的朋友会当面刺你。
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
当我们对自己说谎时,我们的声音最大。
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
拖延是机会的杀手。
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
不要为未来担忧,不要为过去哭泣。
Every strong swimmer has a story about nearly drowning.
每个强壮的游泳者都有过溺水的经历。
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
妇女未能担任领导职务,在很大程度上是由于社会和职业歧视。
A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
雪堆是一件美丽的事情——如果它不横过小路,你就得铲雪或者堵住通往你目的地的路。
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
所有的变化,即使是最渴望的变化,都有其忧郁之处;因为我们留下的是我们自身的一部分;我们必须先死一种生命,才能进入另一种生命。
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce.
如果我要重新开始生活,我倾向于认为我会进入广告行业,而不是几乎任何其他行业。在过去的半个世纪里,现代文明的水平在各民族中普遍提高。
I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.
我从来没有想过我会像上学一样把写作作为我的职业,所以当我把注意力转向写作时,我准备得很差,只有我所读到的作为指导,没有任何正式的培训。我把我的成功很大程度上归功于这种无知。
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
给我一个英雄,我就给你写一个悲剧。