A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
演讲
Speech
A great speech is literature.
伟大的演讲是文学。
Speech is the mirror of action.
言语是行动的镜子。
A fool's speech is a bubble of air.
蠢人的讲话是空话。
Speech is the small change of silence.
言语是沉默的微小变化。
Don't say what you don't want repeated.
不要重复你不想说的话。
Speech is oft repented, silence seldom.
言语常后悔，沉默少言。
Carve every word before you let it fall.
字斟句酌，然后再细细品味。
Literature is the immortality of speech.
文学是不朽的语言。
Speech is silver, but silence is golden.
雄辩是银，沉默是金。
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
任何言语都不能玷污天性高贵的东西。
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
沉默可能像说话一样被各种各样的阴影所遮蔽。
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
据说音乐是天使的语言。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
但是如果思想腐化了语言，语言也能腐化思想。
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
制定政策时，永远不要忘记子孙后代。演讲时不要想着后代。
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
聪明的人用他们的思想塑造语言，就像筛子筛谷粒一样。
Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men.
语言既能隐藏人的思想，又能揭示人的思想。