A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
简单
Simple
I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.
我是一个非常简单的人。我不使用电脑。
I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.
我能用简单的和弦写几百首歌。
Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.
为消费者保持简单是非常可怕的。
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
没有什么能比得上骑自行车的简单乐趣。
I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.
我不再过那种生活了,就这么简单。
The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.
我喜欢的工作类型是单纯、简单而深刻的。
My tastes are simple: Iam easily satisfied with the best.
我的品味很简单:我很容易满足于最好的。
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
纯粹而简单的真理很少纯粹而从不简单。
Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.
喜欢印刷品的人只是把盘子和食物搞混了。
It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.
这很简单,我只是讲述我的悲伤故事,人们会哭泣。
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
生活一直都很简单,但是我们也一直都忍不住要把它变得很复杂。
Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.
有时候拍简单、低调的电影会更困难。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
除了一些简单的原则外,我认为英语散文的声音和节奏很重要,作家和读者都不应该太相信规则,而应该相信自己的耳朵。
Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.
一些解决方案相对简单,而且会带来经济效益:实施节约能源的措施,通过税收和限额交易为碳定价,以及从化石燃料转向清洁和可再生能源。
Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.
研究表明,大多数女性都希望自己的丈夫挣得比自己多。
For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
对我来说,这是一项简单的运动,一种简单的方式来度过这七年或八年的最大运动。
It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.
很简单。我们要求棒球坦白交代,澄清事实。棒球官员要么是认真地想让他们的运动摆脱兴奋剂,要么就是想把这个问题掩盖起来。到目前为止,我们还没有看到太多关于前者的证据。
When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.
当我听我最喜欢的作曲家,他们有如此简单的旋律和和弦。我偶尔会在正确的时间停下来,但我经常会继续,直到我有太多的笔记和单词。但我就是这么做的。