A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
原因
Reason
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
我种植植物有很多原因:为了取悦我的眼睛或灵魂，为了挑战元素或挑战我的耐心，为了新奇或怀旧，但主要是为了看到它们生长的乐趣。
Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
爱是一切的答案。这是做任何事情的唯一理由。如果你不写你喜欢的故事，你就永远不会成功。如果你不写别人喜欢的故事，你永远不会成功。
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
我当然不高兴。幸福与理性有关，而只有理性才能赢得幸福。我得到的是你挣不到的东西，不能保存的东西，往往在那个时候你甚至不认识它;我的意思是快乐。
If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
如果某件事是在国家安全的秘密基础上做的，这是民选官员不谈论这件事的一个很好的理由。这是逃避公众责任的好办法。
There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.
现在没有理由不上电视。你可以住在家里，而不是一直在路上，他们给你的薪水还不错，写作也不错。你不会为此妥协的。
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
我不能告诉你一首诗从何而来，它是什么，它是干什么用的，别人也不能告诉你。我不能告诉你的原因是，一首诗的目的是超越叙述，通过燃烧得到认可。
In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.
从一个非常简单的意义上说，我希望作品中的所有东西都在那里，因为它是必要的。它不是装饰品。不是因为我觉得它好看，而是因为它必须在那里。
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
你若喜爱神和人的爱，就当谦卑。因为骄傲的心，除了自己不爱别人，别人也不爱他。在美德、力量和理智都不能战胜的地方，谦逊才能发挥作用。
Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.
不管是什么原因，我希望我们能结束对奥运会的讨论。它不见了，它在我们身后。赛程不适合去那里的球员，现在很多球员都有些疲劳。
I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent.
我认为我进步的真正原因是因为我在休赛期有很长一段时间，在我所有的新动作上都尽我所能地努力;确保我做了很多重复来让它们保持一致。
I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.
我小时候很笨手笨脚的。我是一个试图融入一个圆圈的正方形，但它从来没有为我工作过。我越努力，摔得越重。由于某种原因，我成为了一个真正的目标，我被殴打，被辱骂。
Well, for the reasons I mention above, although I am not sure the live shows were really so brilliant - but nobody could hear much so perhaps it did not matter! It was certainly a very exciting time for us all.
好吧，由于我上面提到的原因，虽然我不确定现场表演是否真的那么精彩——但是没有人能听到那么多，也许这并不重要!这对我们所有人来说无疑是一个非常激动人心的时刻。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
我花七年时间做事的唯一原因是因为我没有一个真正的计划。
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。
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
美德是一种心智的习惯，与自然、节制和理性相一致。
The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greek said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought."
关于希腊人最基本的事实是他必须运用他的头脑。古代的祭司说过:“到此为止，不要再往前走了。”我们设定了思维的极限。”希腊人说、凡事都要审问审问。思想是没有限制的。”
An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
全能的上帝是唯一没有理由说谎的存在。