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。
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
一个人如果不同意长时间看不见海岸,是不会发现新大陆的。
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
水滴多形成桶,桶多形成塘,塘多形成湖,湖多形成海。
You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.
你要用这个法庭来杀我吗?无论如何,我要为我的生命而战。你应该让我用语言来表达。
You loved me 'cause I'm fragile. When I thought that I was strong but you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone.
你爱我,因为我很脆弱。当我以为我很坚强,但你碰了我一会儿,我所有脆弱的力量都消失了。
Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.
我总是尊敬布莱恩和他的滑冰,我喜欢他的滑冰和他为这项运动所做的一切。三周跳,就是这样,我想要一个三周跳。
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
我明白了衡量成功的标准不是看一个人在生活中所处的地位,而是看他在努力成功的过程中所克服的障碍。
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
大多数人都有一种近乎无限的能力,认为一切都是理所当然的。人不能从历史的教训中学到很多东西,这是所有历史教训中最重要的一条。
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
家庭争吵是痛苦的事情。他们不按任何规则去。它们不像疼痛或伤口,它们更像皮肤上的裂缝,不会愈合,因为没有足够的材料。
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
无论如何,我决不会说我丢了这样一件东西,但我已经把它找回来了。你的孩子死了吗?这是一种回报。你妻子死了吗?这是一种回报。你的财产被剥夺了吗?这不也是一种回报吗?
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
冬天不要砍树。不要在情绪低落的时候做出消极的决定。永远不要在你心情最糟的时候做最重要的决定。等待。要有耐心。暴风雨会过去的。春天就要来了。
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
没有一种药能治愈快乐所不能治愈的。
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
贪得无厌是一种罪恶。