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 working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
一个职业妇女每周可以省下几个先令,然后每隔五周她就来一次,我们给她理发。她可以在淋浴时用洗发水洗头,摇一摇,把头发弄干,或者让头发自己晾干。它改变了许多年轻女孩的生活,她们以前从来没有机会被打扮成那样。
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
谨慎的问题是智慧的一半。
Things will get worse before they get better.
情况在好转之前会变得更糟。
Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you can go.
为你已经走了多远而自豪,为你能走多远而自信。
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
生活就像骑自行车。为了保持平衡,你必须不停地运动。
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
真正的和平不仅仅是没有紧张,它是正义的存在。
If you must push yourself beyond your limits, push yourself hard enough for success.
如果你必须超越自己的极限,那就给自己足够的压力去争取成功。
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
祷告,好像一切都仰赖神。像一切都取决于你一样工作。
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
任何两个人之间的差别,都不可能比同一个人、情人和丈夫之间的差别更大。
I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.
我有点像穴居人——我不经常去数字空间。我面朝下躺在草地上,数着我能找到多少只虫子。
In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
在这个动荡不安、前途未卜的时代,我们不需要更多的命令和控制;我们需要更好的方法,调动每个人的智慧,在挑战和危机出现时予以解决。
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
一个受过教育的人是这样的人:他知道,事实往往是,信息至多是不完整的,而且往往是错误的、误导人的、虚构的、虚假的——完全是错误的。