A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自我
Self
I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.
我想工作多久就工作多久,可是我像小鸟一样自由自在。
I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
我要靠我的薪水生活,否则就会堕落。
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
我对数学的兴趣只是作为一种创造性的艺术。
I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.
我只是想离开波特兰去做点什么。
It's been sanctioned by the courts, and I accept that.
这已经得到了法院的批准,我接受。
I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.
我点燃了自己,人们来看我燃烧。
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
不知道黎明何时来临,我打开每一扇门。
I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
我不会在公司套房结交任何朋友。
Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.
接受而不忘记,给予而不记得。
I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
我最初是个男主角,但只是在电视上。
I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
我从来没有像现在这样尽情地享受生活。
I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.
我在比赛时用生物力学来节省时间。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
一个人可以理解宇宙,但永远无法理解自我;自我比任何星星都遥远。
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
因此,欲望是欲望对整个自我的入侵,当它入侵时,会导致越来越多的心理过程;但与此同时,只要欲望还在,就不能成功地占有自我。
I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.
在这段时间里,我一直对司提反忠心耿耿,就像他向我保证的那样。
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 think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
我想我今晚有些衣服不太适合穿晚礼服。蓝色绒面鞋。
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
我们必须敢于做我们自己,不管这个自我是多么可怕或奇怪。