A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
真诚
Sincerity
Sincerity is moral truth.
真诚是道德的真理。
Behind the gentle bard lies the deadly bard.
在温文尔雅的吟游诗人背后,躺着致命的吟游诗人。
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
誓言最多的人,也是最不真诚的人。
That which comes from the heart is always sincere.
发自内心的东西总是真诚的。
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
真诚:如果你能假装,你就成功了。
Examine well the counsel that favours your desire.
仔细研究那些对你有利的建议。
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
只有真诚地寻求真理,才能使人得到休息。
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
原创的价值不在于新颖;这是真诚。
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
真诚不是一朵自发的花,谦虚也不是。
When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.
当一个人一遍又一遍地重复一个承诺时,他的意思是让你失望。
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
真正的乡村音乐是诚实、真诚和真实生活的极致。
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
我们应该看透一个伪君子,甚至看清他的真诚。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
真诚并不总是真实的;相反,错误往往比真理更为严重。
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.
托尔斯泰有两个人。他是一个神秘主义者,也是一个现实主义者。他沉迷于一种虔诚的做法,尽管它的真诚是模糊的和感性的;他是最敏锐和冷静的观察者,最深刻和认真的性格和情感的学生。
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
恐惧不是说真话的习惯;当完全的真诚被期待时,完全的自由必须被允许;凡是听到真理时容易生气的人,也没有理由怀疑自己没有听到真理。
Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
真诚不仅是有效的和光荣的,它也比通常认为的困难得多。
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
一点点真诚是危险的,太真诚则绝对是致命的。
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
真诚怎么会是友谊的条件呢?不惜一切代价追求真理是一种不惜一切代价的激情。