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 great artist is never poor.
伟大的艺术家从不贫穷。
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
我从未见过野生动物自怨自艾。一只小鸟会从树枝上冻死,而不会为自己感到难过。
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.
如果你练习一门艺术,要为它感到骄傲,让它为你感到骄傲。它会让你成为一个真正的人。
My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere... be brief... be seated.
我父亲在演讲时给我的建议是:要真诚……是短暂的……是坐着的。
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
一幅好的画对我来说就像一个朋友。它陪伴着我,安慰着我,激励着我。
I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.
我对商业艺术中通常被认为是最糟糕的方面感兴趣。我认为这是一种张力,在似乎如此刻板和陈词滥调和艺术真的不可能这样的事实之间。
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
时间就是这样变换的,每件事都是如此;新事物成功,正如旧事物变老。
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
昨天是历史,明天是未知,今天是上帝的礼物,这就是为什么我们称之为现在。
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
我在你们面前宣布,我的整个一生,无论长或短,都将致力于为你们服务,为我们大家都属于的伟大的皇族服务。
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
我用咖啡勺来衡量我的生活。
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
我们所观察的宇宙,如果其本质上没有设计、没有目的、没有恶、没有善,只有盲目、无情的冷漠,那么它就具有我们所期望的特性。
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
你是受过教育的。你的证书就是你的学位。你可以把它看作通往美好生活的门票。让我请你想出一个替代方案。把它看作是你改变世界的门票。