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。
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.
生活、不幸、孤独、遗弃、贫穷,都是有英雄的战场;无名英雄,有时比显赫的英雄更伟大。
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
十月是落叶,但它也更开阔了视野,看得更清楚了。它再次出现在远山的视野中,再次出现在它们上面永恒的星座。
"We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect".
“我们都是美丽的沉船。这就是我们之间的联系——我们都破碎了,都美丽地不完美。”
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
向别人展示你的梦想需要很大的勇气。
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
我们需要的很多东西可以等待。孩子不能。现在是他的骨头成形,思想发展的时候了。我们不能对他说明天,他的名字是今天。
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
我最害怕的事情莫过于醒来时没有计划,这将帮助我给那些没有资源、贫穷、文盲和身患绝症的人带来一点幸福。
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
那些决定把休闲作为心智发展手段的人,那些喜欢好音乐、好书、好画、好剧本、好伙伴、好对话的人——他们是什么?他们是世界上最幸福的人。
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
年龄是为成熟付出的高昂代价。
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
真理一旦发现,就很容易理解;关键是要发现它们。
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
你永远不会穿得太讲究或受教育程度太高。
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
没有传统,艺术就像一群羊没有牧人。没有创新,它就是一具尸体。