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 handful of good life is better than seven barrels of learning.
少量的美好生活胜过七桶学问。
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
一个人的富有与他能负担得起的东西的数量成正比,更不用说了。
Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
有时候,一个积极的政策最好是在合适的时间之前什么都不做,或者永远不做。
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.
最终,我相信,目前试图用人造计算机来理解大脑的尝试将被认为是巨大的浪费时间。人造计算机可以出色地执行一些与有意识的人相同的外部任务。
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
服务是美丽的,但只有当它是与快乐,整个心和自由的思想。
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
艺术是大自然的右手。后者只给了我们生命,前者造就了我们人类。
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
一个人的真正生活在于他的快乐之中;正是从他的闲暇中,他构建了真正的自我结构。
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
天下莫柔弱于水,而攻坚强者莫之能胜,以其无以易之。
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
“我的名字叫奥兹曼迪亚斯,万王之王。你们这些伟大而绝望的人,看看我的作为吧!”“什么也没有留下。在那巨大残骸的周围,是无边无际、光秃秃的孤独的、平坦的沙滩,一直延伸到很远的地方。
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
善者,吾善之﹔不善者,吾亦善之﹔德善。信者,吾信之﹔不信者,吾亦信之﹔德信。
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
女人唯一真正成功地改变男人的时候是在他还是个婴儿的时候。
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
如果有两个是一体的,那么我们就是。 如果有哪个男人被妻子爱过,那就是你。