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。
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
沉默如永恒之深,言语如时间之浅。
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
爱不是你能找到的东西。爱是找到你的东西。
You're always fascinated by what you do, and how other people look at it.
你总是被你所做的事情以及别人如何看待它所吸引。
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
除了我们自己,没有人能拯救我们。没有人可以,也没有人可以。我们自己必须走这条路。
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
没有女人会爱上一个男人,除非她对他有比他应得的更好的看法。
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
我想象着有一天,我们对机器人的意义就像狗对人类的意义一样,我支持机器。
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
我们在生活中失去的生命在哪里?我们在知识中失去的智慧在哪里?我们在信息中丢失的知识在哪里?
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
长期的学徒期是成功最合乎逻辑的途径。唯一的选择就是一夜成名,但我不能给你一个公式。
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
作为一个国家,我们为何如此痴迷于外国事物?它是我们殖民时代的遗产吗?我们需要外国电视机。我们要洋装。我们需要外国技术。为什么对进口商品如此痴迷?
I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.
我对被当作某种例子很敏感。我不认为自己是任何类型的榜样。我比其他职业女性有很多优势,我的日程安排让我有更多的时间和孩子们在一起,比很多职业女性有更多的时间。
Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.
时间让我改变。我逐渐意识到这就是我,一个作家,一个公众人物,我不能只是躲在我的书房里,不停地敲击键盘,假装除了把单词串在一起我没有其他的角色。
Now is the winter of our discontent.
现在是我们不满的冬天。