A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
传记
Biography
I'm an avid biography reader.
我热衷于读传记。
I had lost faith in biography.
我对传记失去了信心。
Biography lends to death a new terror.
传记给死亡增添了一种新的恐怖。
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
传记应该由一个尖锐的敌人来写。
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
一个好的轶事值得一卷传记。
Biography is now more or less a branch of psychiatry.
传记现在或多或少是精神病学的一个分支。
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
地理是关于地图的，而传记是关于人物的。
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
没有心理学;只有传记和自传。
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
一个人的脸就是他的自传。女人的脸是她的小说作品。
You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
你不能离开已经成为你的传记的房子。
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
我不得不写这本书，因为有一本未经授权的传记，没有如实讲述。
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
这也是口述传记的乐趣之一，因为读者，而不是编辑，是陪审团。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
传记，就像大型狩猎一样，是一种公认的体育形式，它是不公平的，因为只有体育可以。
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
我喜欢传记，我被那些改变了我们命运或观点的人所吸引。
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
但是，从他的信中摘录的几句话和一两行奇怪的诗句中，这位诗人却在自己的传记中感到窒息。
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
传记可以是所有形式中最中产阶级的，小人物的判断是对大人物的报复。
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
任何一个坐下来思考有多少人知道他或她恋爱的真实情况的人，都能看出写传记有多难。
The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
传记的艺术不同于地理。地理是关于地图的，而传记是关于人物的。