A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
单
Single
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
我没有读过一份报纸，也没有一个月读过一份，因此我感到无比的快乐。
It’s called flirting when you are in a relationship, but it is called being friendly when you are single.
恋爱时这叫做调情，但单身时这叫做友好。
When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change
当你年轻健康的时候，你从来没有想过你的一生会在一秒钟内改变
We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.
我们都以自己的方式受到伤害。没有人是完美的。我觉得我们每个人都有点古怪。
When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.
当我单身的时候，我的事业就是我的生活，所以我所做的一切都是非常重要的，非常令人不安。
I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.
我敢肯定，有一些单一付款人的拥护者认为，唯一值得为之奋斗的是单一付款人。
Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.
康复是你每天都要做的事情，它不会让你休息一天。
A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
墨西哥南部热带森林中的一棵树比一些欧洲国家有更多不同的种类。
I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.
我每天训练六到七个小时。我每周醒来六天，我知道这将是同样的事情。
I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.
我最终成为了一个寡妇和单身母亲，而她现在甚至还不能成为一个母亲。我太孤单了，太可怕了。
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
当一个人凝视着石堆时，它就不再是石堆了，在他的心中有一座大教堂的形象。
If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
如果你是一个单身男人，碰巧在这个行业里，你就被认为是一个玩家。但我不认为自己是个讨女人喜欢的男人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
当我走到生命的尽头，站在上帝面前时，我希望我不会留下一丁点儿才能，我会说，‘我用尽了你给我的一切’。
The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record.
他们唯一能选择的就是单身。但我可以选择制作人，唱片上的歌曲，最终的大师，艺术品。基本上，我给他们一张唱片。
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
一个人如果只运用他的一种智力，不管这种智力的运用是多么有用，是多么奇特，那么他和一个只知道运用肌肉的人一样，都是一种不完美的动物。
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
对于大多数艺人来说，只有一个经历，一个决定性的时刻，自信取代了我们大多数人挣扎的自我怀疑。