A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
说话
Speak
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
陌生人,如果你路过遇见我,想和我说话,为什么不跟我说话呢?我为什么不跟你说话呢?
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
雕刻家或画家经常谈论或写他的作品是错误的。这释放了他工作所需要的紧张情绪。
I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.
我有西班牙语文学学士学位,所以我想,如果我在另一个国家,比如挪威,西班牙语说得不好,可能会有人花钱雇我。
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
三思而后言,因为你的言辞和影响力会在别人的心中播下成功或失败的种子。
You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.
你拿一个插头,把它插到插座里,这就是剧院——它马上就亮了。你说话,他们立即回应。
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
那些毁谤属灵生命的,昼夜往来,好像铁匠的风箱。他们喘气却没有生气。
It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it!
这是不可能的;这是不可能的!我代表密西西比河谷的广大人民,以及它以西的人民,说,你们不能这样做!
I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.
我认识一些人,他们从来没有什么困难可言。当我明白你的前提时,我确信你有一个真正的基础。
We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.
我们被教导要相信行动胜于言语。但我认为语言在我们的生活中都很响亮;我们把这些话牢记于心。
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
有些人说得好,写得不好。因为这个地方和观众使他们感到温暖,并从他们的思想中汲取比他们想象的更多的温暖。
Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy.
我已经说得很清楚了,这是个人在行使他们自己的判断,他们自己的良心自由谈论政策问题的问题。
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
没有人说,也不应该说,他没有衡量过的,他的王子,是否会与对他的尊敬,应该保持不侵犯。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
举止得体:他说话的样子总是好像他妈妈在听似的。
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
不要对不如你幸运的人说你的幸福。
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
我们不能总是满足;但我们总能亲切地交谈。
Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.
每个人都应该有自己的事情,如果他不想成为一个榜样,那应该由他决定。在合适的情况下,我可以试着去帮助别人,成为一个榜样,但我仍然会说出我的想法,如果这影响了榜样的交易,那就太糟糕了。
If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.
如果你想让人们倾听,你必须有一个说话的平台,这就是你所做的卓越之处。
I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.
我不常说“我爱你”这句话,但每次和孩子们说话时,我都会说。