A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
说话
Speaks
Where words fail, music speaks.
没有语言的地方，音乐就说话。
Everyone is wise until he speaks.
每个人在开口之前都是聪明的。
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
知识会说话，智慧会倾听。
When money speaks the truth is silent.
有钱能使鬼推磨。
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
说得多的人大错特错。
What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.
心怎么想，舌就怎么说。
Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.
即使回声也不会在这片光彩照人的荒原上说话。
A runaway monk never speaks well of his convent.
一个出逃的修道士从来不会称赞他的修院。
Everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over.
每个人都对那座承载着他的桥赞不绝口。
Falsehood is the Devil's daughter, and speaks her father's tongue.
谎言是魔鬼的女儿，说的是她父亲的舌头。
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
坏男人是那种每次谈到好女人都会流泪的人。
Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.
空言显空意，沉默最能说明一切。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
当一个人对他说话的人不理解，他自己也不理解时，这就是形而上学。
Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.
人人都把自己的心说得好，却没有人敢把自己的心说得好。
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
一个作家谈论自己的书就像一个母亲谈论自己的孩子一样糟糕。
My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.
我岳母一句英语也不会说。我不讲塔吉克语。于是，我讨好地对她笑了笑，她用锐利的眼睛盯着我。
A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.
在这里的年轻人能说西班牙语，在许多其他方面，更可取。
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
如果我说到维也纳，那一定是过去时，就像一个男人说到他爱过的一个女人，她已经死了。