A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
原因
Reason
There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.
喝酒有两个原因:一是当你渴的时候，要把它治好;另一种，当你不渴的时候，防止它。
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
很多人没有意识到机遇的存在，是因为它总是穿着工装裤走来走去，看上去像在努力工作。
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was and the present worse than it is.
人们发现很难快乐的原因是他们总是看到过去比过去更好，现在比过去更糟。
Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
因为不管出于什么原因，即使我想一直呆在家里，一个人呆着，我想告诉世界我现在是谁。
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
现代性是启蒙运动的产物，但当人们意识到一个好的社会是无法靠理性实现的时候，现代性就失败了。
I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
我刚当了三个月的蔬菜。我不能和别人说话。我病得很重，这也是我离开大学的部分原因。
I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
我总是写得很紧凑，这是有原因的。使用你不会用到的词是没有意义的。
Don't judge me, you can't handle half of what I've dealt with. There's a reason I do the things I do, there's a reason I am who I am.
别对我评头论足，我处理的事情你一半都处理不了。我做我所做的事情是有原因的，我就是我。
I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.
我对方旦糖发起了一场讨伐，也就是缩短。如果你知道自己在做什么，婚礼蛋糕没有理由不好吃。
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
将理性转化为偏见是最糟糕的偏见形式，因为理性是摆脱偏见的唯一工具。
The first person who's on your mind on the moment you open your eyes after a long sleep is the reason either of your happiness or pain.
长时间的睡眠之后，当你睁开眼睛，第一个出现在你脑海里的人，要么是你快乐的原因，要么是你痛苦的原因。
We don't need to rush. If somethings bound to happen, it will happen. In the right time, with the right person and for the best reason.
我们不需要赶时间。如果事情注定要发生，它就会发生。在对的时间，对的人，为了最好的理由。
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
人是理性的动物，当被要求按照理性的要求行事时，他总是发脾气。
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
写作过程中有一个失败的比例。废纸篓的发展是有原因的。
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
正如我们的敌人所发现的那样，我们可以像男人一样理性，所以现在让我们向他们展示，我们也可以像男人一样战斗。
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
数学作为人类思维的一种表达方式，反映了人类积极的意志、沉思的理性和对审美完美的渴望。其基本要素是逻辑与直觉、分析与建构、共性与个性。
Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?
难道这就是发生在人类身上的事情——一种心甘情愿的任性行为，无视人类的一切价值，而这些价值在一百多万年的时间里是如此难以赢得，而且是按照理性来构建的吗?
Time makes more converts than reason.
时间比理性更能改变人。