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。
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
爱就像一朵野玫瑰,美丽而平静,但却愿意为自己的防御而流血。
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
名誉就像一条河,把一些又轻又肿的东西冲上去,把一些又重又结实的东西淹没。
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
年龄不是一个特别有趣的话题。任何人都可能变老。你所要做的就是活得足够长久。
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
对待别人就像他们应该做的那样,你帮助他们成为他们能够成为的人。
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
因为自由不仅仅是挣脱自己的枷锁,而是以尊重和增进他人自由的方式生活。
There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
没有讨论就没有伟大事业的解决办法,人们不把注意力集中在一项事业上,就不会去讨论它。
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
我觉得除了相信人类的善良,我不需要其他信仰。我是如此专注于地球的奇迹和它上面的生命,我不能想到天堂和天使。
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
大量的书使我们变得无知。
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
我怎么知道我在想什么,直到我看到我说的话?
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
诗人是世界上未被承认的立法者。
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
一个人之所以是一个人,是因为他把别人看作人。
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
任何东西的价格都是你为它付出的生命的数量。