A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
为了
Sake
Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?
哦，看在上帝的份上……好好生活，好吗?
I have never designed a language for its own sake.
我从来没有为语言本身而设计过一种语言。
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
为艺术而艺术是富人的哲学。
My parents are private investigators for God's sake.
看在上帝的份上，我父母是私家侦探。
I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
我对为圆滑而圆滑不感兴趣。
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
当你为了美丽而欺骗时，你就知道你是一个艺术家。
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
我最好的朋友就是那个为了我而祝福我的人。
Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
理论原则有时必须为实际利益让路。
If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
如果一个人试图为了规模而创建一家更大的公司，他们在大多数情况下都不会创造价值。
You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.
你试着为了比赛而遵守规则，但你总是可以提高强度。
We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.
我们提出这个要求，不是为了原则，而是为了无产阶级的利益。
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
我想在死后被彻底地用完，因为我越努力工作，我就活得越多。我为生活本身而快乐。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.
我认为没有必要为了卑鄙而卑鄙，但是我相信你必须诚实，但是要有爱心。
I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story. I will not do something shocking for the sake of being nasty. If it's not hurting anyone's feelings, I'm in on the joke.
为了一个笑话，或者为了某人对某件事的真实信念，我愿意做任何事情来帮助讲述一个故事。我不会为了卑鄙而做出令人震惊的事。如果没有伤害到任何人的感情，我是开玩笑的。
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
在我看来，艺术作品是物质世界中唯一具有内在秩序的对象，这就是为什么，虽然我不认为只有艺术才重要，但我相信艺术是为了艺术而艺术。
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
我们总是知道如何向阵亡的士兵致敬。他们是为了我们而被杀的，他们执行了我们的使命。但是，我们如何悼念一个在咖啡馆里被恐怖袭击杀害的随机男子呢?你如何哀悼一位上了公共汽车却再也没有回来的家庭主妇?