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情况
Situation
It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.
它是许多随机的情况,以某种不稳定的形式结合在一起,创造出一个比所有人都无法预测的更大的情况。
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
命运在其他事情上有很大的力量,尤其是在战争中,它可以通过非常微弱的力量给局势带来巨大的变化。
I know the situation and would be happy to talk with him, but I'm not going to call him out of the blue. If he has questions, I'd be happy to answer them.
我知道情况,很乐意和他谈谈,但我不会突然打电话给他。如果他有问题,我很乐意回答。
In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
在另一种情况下,在生活中处于活跃的地位时,我就会全神贯注地工作,我就永远不会想到要建立一个秩序。
I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
我在学术上是个书呆子。但我也是一名运动员和音乐家。我从来不想被排除在任何情况之外。我想这是最重要的。
It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
这真的是,哦,拜托,这个人不会那样说或者他不会那样做,你知道,这是关于角色,关于故事,关于情境。
If I was in a situation where it wasn't working and I had a choice with another man, I'm gonna assess it like a business deal: who is the better person for me?
如果我在一个没有成功的情况下,我有一个和另一个男人的选择,我会像做生意一样评估:谁更适合我?
When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.
当我们不只是把某些行为与动物的某些情境联系起来,而是把情境想清楚时,我们就会对其中的元素有一套特定的感觉。
A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.
很多时候,当你经历了一个非常痛苦的情况,并且在情感上很难处理的时候,你会在精神上变得更强大。它在某种程度上改变了你。
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
通过幽默,你可以减轻生活中一些最糟糕的打击。一旦你找到了笑声,不管你的处境有多痛苦,你都能挺过去。
But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.
但在幻想中,你可以彻底打破,你可以把人们置于一个他们在现实世界中不会遇到的情况。
Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
情景胜于场景。言外之意大于言外之意。比这一切更伟大的是一个单独的、完整的人,他永远不会被限制在任何框架内。
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I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.
我被那些自认为能控制一切的角色所吸引,但他们的处境是无法控制的。
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
当我现在写作的时候,我没有创造情境、人物或动作,而是创造结构和散乱的形式,文本的分组是根据它们之间的秘密相似性组合起来的,就像在建筑或造型艺术中一样。
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
你总是可以修改一个大计划,但你永远不能扩大一个小计划。我不相信小计划。我相信有足够大的计划来应对我们现在无法预见的情况。
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
很少有人有真正的艺术才能。因此,通过努力来刺激局势既不合适,也没有效果。如果你有一种强烈的,不安分的写作或绘画的冲动,只要吃点甜食,这种感觉就会过去。
That's just a situation where you're looking to take advantage of their aggressiveness. One time in a hundred it may work and today it saved us a run right there. It may not work again the rest of the season but it did today.
这只是一种你想利用他们侵略性的情况。百分之一的时间它可能会起作用,而今天它正好帮我们省了一分。在本赛季余下的时间里,它可能不会再发挥作用,但今天它发挥了作用。
We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.
我们希望和平和政治解决车臣局势。