A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自我
Self
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
我死后，报纸上可能会有一两段。我的名字将会出现在大英博物馆阅览室的目录中，在一长串无人问询的书单的最前面。
I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'
我的胳膊肘弯曲的方向不对，我站在电梯里，电梯门会关上，我会假装我的胳膊被夹住了，然后我会大叫，“哎哟，哎哟，把它放回去!”
I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.
我认为，通过教育、对上帝的信仰和良好的工程学，我们的孩子在他们所做的事情上比我们做得好得多，这始于地球表面生命的最初迹象。
Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.
关注自己的外表会让我感到不舒服。我试着专注于我的感觉——我知道是什么让我对自己感觉更好。给孩子讲故事让我感觉很好，但把头发梳好却不行。
From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.
从为这个不怀好意的人做一次月球之旅中，我明白了没有人的爱能拯救任何人。有些人想死，没有什么或没有人能阻止他们。唯一能救你的就是你自己。
My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick.
我的母亲、祖母和姐姐都做饭了，所以很难进入厨房。所以我没有烹饪的天赋。我总是和爸爸在车库里。我有一个工具带。我是个修理工。
All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.
所有美丽和高贵的品质都在我身上得到了统一……我将是果实，即使在它腐烂之后，也会留下永恒的活力。你们生我，该是何等的喜乐。
I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?
我从不从头条新闻中汲取灵感。我觉得如果一个故事足够好，一个真实的故事，那么它就已经被媒体报道过了，如果它不够好，我为什么还要为它费心呢?
What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.
我认为我们应该在这样一本书里做的是密切关注林肯，他自己，看看他知道什么，他是如何知道的，他是如何做出他所做的决定的，以及他是如何执行这些决定的。
I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.
例如，我有一本书将于9月出版，其中的情节与伪造有关，我为此做了大量研究。或者任何法律问题，例如，我必须在网上做很多调查。
If I just simply let go, and allow my hand, my arm, to be more of a support system, suddenly - I have more dynamic with less effort. Much more, and I just feel, at last, one with the stick, and one with the drum.
如果我只是简单地放手，让我的手，我的手臂，更多地成为一个支持系统，突然间——我变得更有活力，更少的努力。更多，我终于感觉到，一个拿着棍子，一个拿着鼓。
No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
不管他们有多出名，有多有地位，不管他们有多幸运，有多伟大的歌曲，有多长的职业生涯，如果他们独自生活，他们就会独自生活。这不是我在巡演之前或之后想要的生活方式。
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
我不想伤害别人，也不想让别人看到我，但人们似乎很容易忘记我。
I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.
我希望人们记住我是一个有一系列优先事项的人，并且愿意按照这些优先事项生活。就成就而言，我最大的成就是在真正的危险中维护了国家的安全。
When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach kids about other things, like reading or math with all of the weights and measures. There are so many things that are part of cooking that are also very educational.
当我和我的儿子一起做饭时，我可能会切蔬菜，和不同的形状玩得很开心。烹饪是教孩子其他事情的一种方式，比如用所有的砝码和量具来阅读或数学。烹饪中有很多东西都很有教育意义。
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
很长一段时间以来，我一直试图尽我所能写出最好的作品。有时候我运气好，写得比我能写的更好。
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
我说英语没有口音，我说西班牙语没有口音。我真的是两全其美。
The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
我离结婚最近的一次是在我开始唱歌之前。事实上，我的第一张唱片救了我的命。