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。
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
诗歌是语言的命运之一……有人会说，诗意的意象，就其新颖性而言，为语言打开了一个未来。
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice.
我们很少后悔说得太少，却常常后悔说得太多:这是一句庸俗陈腐的格言，全世界都知道，但全世界都不实行。
I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
我想知道他们长什么样，他们的身高，肤色，体格和说话的方式。
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
任何一年演讲超过六次的人注定要重复自己的演讲，不是因为他没什么可说的，而是因为他想要掌声，而老东西能得到掌声。
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
当你生气的时候说出来，你会做出你会后悔的最好的演讲。
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
大多数深度失聪的人都有非常难以理解的语言。