A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
小
Small
I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.
我建立了公司,创造了就业机会,我知道小企业因高税收而受挫。
I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.
为了能继续在这里生活,我为芬兰的一些小报纸做了一些电影评论。
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
写作使生活变得有意义。你一生都在工作,也许你已经理解了一个小领域。
Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.
斯威士兰是非洲东南部的一小部分,是非洲大陆上最后一个获得独立的国家。
In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
在一家小公司里,你经常能在更大范围内看到更多的事情。,这很好。
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
人们对小事的敏感和对大事的漠不关心,表明了一种奇怪的颠倒。
No relationship is perfect, ever. But the love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences.
没有一段关系是完美的。但我们对彼此的爱比这些小小的差异更大。
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
以正确的方式让我们感到渺小是艺术的一种功能;男人只会让我们以错误的方式感到渺小。
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
因为你们不能作审判官,至少当见证人。
It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
只有小企业主才能提供真正有利可图和可靠的纳税材料。他天生擅长纳税。
Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
作为一名南非白人,我很享受这个国家为一小部分人提供的更好的东西。
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
渺小的人需要专制来锻炼他们的肌肉,正如伟大的灵魂渴望平等来发挥他们的心灵。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
为什么不像现在一样,一开始有那么多矮小的将军,而他们的种类又不相称呢?
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
人类的声音是所有乐器中最美丽的,但它是最难演奏的。
Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.
突然,大约在十点钟左右,远处传来一声沉闷的撞击声,同时我们看见前面大约半英里的地方有一小片白色的圆云,那是弹片爆炸的地方。战斗开始了。
Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
回首……很难理解为什么在短短几年内事情发生了变化,大家都大惊小怪。当你看世界上发生的所有事情时,它似乎很小。
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
作为一个小商人,你没有比真相更大的影响力。