A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
单
Single
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
我知道我从来没有像一场表演那么好或那么差。我从不相信我的批评者或崇拜者，我总是能够离开赛场。
I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
我知道我从来没有像任何一场表演那么好或差。我从不相信我的批评者或崇拜者，我总是能够离开赛场。
I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.
我喜欢认为，我没有单一的观点，也没有任何单一的情况，我认为事情是从哪来的。我试着举例说明我认为对我来说有趣的问题。
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。
You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.
你有一只表，它是头脑的发明，虽然它是为一个单一的运动而设计的，也是为一个更伟大的思想而设计的，它有各种各样的弹簧，可以做各种各样的运动。
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
通过努力去做不可能的事，人总是能完成可能的事。那些谨慎地做了他们认为不可能做的事情的人从来没有向前迈出过一步。
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。
I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then... while I was single... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation.
我单身了六年，在这六年里，我回到了大学，拿到了社会工作的学位，然后……当我单身的时候……巴尼是来朴次茅斯度假的。
I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy.
我读过这本书，也很喜欢它，但是当我试着把自己想象成这个角色的时候，我真的很不舒服。这个人似乎是每一个完美男人的化身。
I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.
我喜欢把手放在每一个盘子上。当有人称赞你做的菜，而你又参与其中时，这种感觉真的很好。这是非常有益的。
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.
随着地震学家从地震记录中获得更多的经验，很明显，这个问题不能归结为一个单峰加速度。事实上，振动的频率是全频率的。
There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.
在我内心深处，我希望自己从来没有在公开场合就任何话题说过一个字。那么我就可以成为一个饱受折磨的诗人，这有很多好处。但是现在停下来太晚了。
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I'm still single, but me and Lauren are really really really close friends.
我还是单身，但我和劳伦是非常非常亲密的朋友。
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’。
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。
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。
It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff.
农村医院和疗养院通常作为一个单一单位来运作，以便利用与分担某些服务和工作人员费用有关的节省。
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
在言语之外，有共同之处的词语在记忆中所形成的联想创造了不同的群体、系列、科，在这些群体中，获得了非常不同的关系，但都属于一个范畴:这些都是联想关系。