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。
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
书是最好的东西,用得好;被虐待,在最糟糕的…它们只是用来鼓舞人心的。
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
我们最大的弱点在于放弃。成功最确定的方法就是再试一次。
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
我不害怕暴风雨,因为我正在学习如何驾驶我的船。
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
知者不言,言者不知。
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
信仰在于当它超出理性所能相信的时候去相信。
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
每一个艺术家的目标都是通过人为的手段来捕捉运动,也就是生命,并把它固定住,这样一百年后,当一个陌生人看到它时,它又动了起来,因为这就是生命。
We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.
我们放弃了让唱片很好地再现现场表演的想法。
I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
我是个差劲的记者。我从来不可能客观。有时候我编造了整个故事。
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
渴望被他的同伴们观察、考虑、尊重、赞扬、喜爱和钦佩,这是人类心灵中发现的最早也是最敏锐的性情之一。
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
这是一个人的一小步,却是人类的一大步。
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die!
短暂的睡眠过后,我们永远醒来,死亡将不复存在:死亡,你将死去!
I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time.
我一直在做很多唱歌的研究,我想录一张包含我所有旧战马的专辑,同时出版一本歌曲集。