A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
坐着
Sitting
It is as cheap sitting as standing.
坐着和站着一样便宜。
Do not cut the bough you are sitting on.
不要砍你坐着的树枝。
I like sitting and writing with my buddies.
我喜欢和我的朋友们坐在一起写作。
Life's too short to be sitting around miserable.
人生苦短,不要无所事事。
I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.
我只有一条皱纹,而且还长在上面。
I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
我很难长时间坐下来。
Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.
在洪泛区就像坐在浴缸里一样。
Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.
坐着等待你的灵感并不是最好的选择。
It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
我又不是坐在家里想出什么秘密的美容计划。
You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
你不会像我那样坐在家里,和家人和睦相处,写出那么多书。
So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.
我预测的很多事情都是技术就在我们面前。
The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
写作最重要的是……写作。屁股坐到椅子上干活。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.
我发现,在某种程度上,当我真的无能为力的时候,坐在那里,为项目的进展而困扰,真的会适得其反。
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
但我也可以在蹩脚的汽车旅馆房间里写作,排队时,或者坐在牙医的椅子上。
I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.
我边走边思考。它只是以一种你坐在办公桌前无法得到的方式放松你的思维。
I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.
我必须有一把吉他。我在淋浴时唱歌。我在房子周围唱歌。音乐是次要的。歌词是第一位的。
I'm very, very Spanish. I have fat cheeks on both ends. I'm sitting on my Spanish part. And it's my heart, the way I am, the way I speak. It has nothing to do with the way I look.
我非常非常西班牙。我两颊都很胖。我坐在我的西班牙语部分。这是我的心,我现在的样子,我说话的方式。这和我的长相无关。
And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'
而整个奥斯卡的事情,简直是超现实的:你花了好几个月的时间做宣传,然后手里拿着这个金灿灿的东西回到现实。你把它放在办公室里,然后你只要把它放在架子上看就行了。大约两周后,你会问:“那是在做什么?”