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。
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
演讲要研究三点:第一，说服的方法;第二,语言;第三，适当安排演讲的各个部分。
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
在我们这个时代，政治演讲和写作在很大程度上是站不住脚的辩护。
I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
我从来没有真正说过很多关于整个事件，这是无休止的。但他的演讲是一个非常聪明的演讲，关于父亲不是可有可无的，没有人比我更赞同这一点。
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
多演讲是一回事，适时演讲是另一回事。
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。
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
你说话要谨慎一点，免得毁了自己的前程。