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。
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则,即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风,但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利,而平等的法律必须保护这些权利,侵犯这些权利就是压迫。
A fool thinks himself to bewise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
傻瓜自以为聪明,但聪明人知道自己是傻瓜。
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
大道废,有仁义;智慧出,有大伪;六亲不和,有孝慈;国家昏乱,有忠臣。
Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.
和猫玩的人一定会被抓伤。
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
梦想一次只有一个主人。这就是为什么梦想家是孤独的。
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
当目标明显无法实现时,不要调整目标,调整行动步骤。
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
我的恩惠像海一样无边无际,我的爱像海一样深沉;我给你的越多,我拥有的就越多,因为两者都是无限的。
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
最重要的事情往往是最难说出口的。它们是你感到羞耻的东西,因为语言会减少你的感觉——当你脑海中永恒的东西被拿出来的时候,它们只会缩小到活生生的大小。
Action is worry's worst enemy.
行动是忧虑最大的敌人。
Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are.
告诉我你的朋友是谁,我就会告诉你你是谁。
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
我浪费了时间,现在时间也在浪费我。
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
任何一个成年人,只要他认为自己像过去的父母和老师一样,可以变得内省,唤起自己的青春去理解他面前的青春,他就迷失了。