A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
更好
Better
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
使一颗心因一个行为而快乐，胜过使一千个脑袋在祷告中低头。
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
沉默也许是金，但你能想出一个比听他说话更好的方法来取悦他吗?
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
与智者隔桌而谈，胜过十年读书。
How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
有多少事情是我们可以好好考虑的，我们是否应该更好地了解它们。
A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
没有比这更好的结局了。当然，如果我们赢了，那就更好了。
Even when if feels like it can't get any better. Keep your head up & smile. Don't let them break you.
即使当它感觉不能再好了。抬头微笑。别让他们毁了你。
It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
与其忍受戒烟或死亡带来的后果，甚至不去尝试一下都好。
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
给孩子勤奋的习惯比给他们财富更有益。
Don’t cry for your loss. God won’t take anything from you without replacing it with something better.
不要为你的损失而哭泣。上帝不会拿走你的任何东西，除非用更好的东西来代替它。
You can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, & find something better in your future.
你不能回头——你必须把过去抛诸脑后，在未来找到更好的东西。
'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'
“认识你自己”是句好话，但不是在所有情况下都适用。在很多情况下，说“认识别人”会更好。
If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
如果在我之前有三个公共编辑，身体可能会更好地吸收它。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
我们必须为建设一个更美好的国家和更美好的世界而战。我们是做白日梦的傻瓜，相信傻瓜会做得更少。
I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
我把自己看作是这个星球的公民。甚至当我还是个孩子的时候，我就发现为自己的团队加油是愚蠢的。人们说他们自己的球队比其他球队好，只是因为这是他们的球队，这让我很困惑。
Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
也许我们必须打破一切，让自己变得更好。
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
艺术比股市或国会辩论更能反映我们这个世界正在发生的事情。
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
现代艺术是当画家不再看着女孩，而是说服自己他们有更好的主意时所发生的事情。
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
对于一个青少年来说，世界上没有什么比父母更令人尴尬的了。