A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
花了
Spent
Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.
最重要的是,我避免担心,因为花在这件事上的时间可以花得更有建设性。
No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
没有人会为同样的东西付双倍或两倍的钱,因为除了一次什么也不能花。
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
生命中有比死亡更糟糕的事情。你曾经和保险推销员一起度过一个晚上吗?
He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.
他花了好几个小时练习这些魔术。这真是件奇怪的事。
Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.
里根不与媒体打交道。他晚上和南茜一起,端着餐盘看电视。但他知道要超越,你不能屈尊俯就。
We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.
我们,一些演员和我,甚至周末一起去旅行,在一家旅馆度过周末,因为我们很享受彼此的陪伴,这很酷。
That time, when everyone else is asleep, and it's just me and my little man, that's the best time I've ever spent in my life. I just get to love on him. It, literally, is the best.
那时候,当所有人都睡着了,只有我和我的小宝贝,那是我一生中最美好的时光。我只是爱上了他。从字面上讲,它是最好的。
I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.
在我的童年,我花了很多冬天和我的哥哥,我的堂兄弟,和朋友在附近放风筝。我们在冬天就是这么做的。学校关闭。没有什么可做的。
If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.
如果你遇到一个在监狱里呆过很长时间的人,你不会放松警惕。永远。真的,这就是它的意义所在——如果你太过开放,你就会要求你的牙齿被踢进去。
All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.
在我成长的过程中,我所知道的就是我的父亲娶了我的母亲,并且爱她,仅此而已。他努力工作,赚了一些钱,把它放在梳妆台上。她把钱花在家庭上,他出去挣更多的钱。他教会了我很多关于爱的东西。
I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.
我以写虚构的反英雄人物为职业。为了创造这些世界,我花了很多时间与法律双方的活跃成员在一起。如果我必须从这两个人中选出最有趣的一个,选择是显而易见的——我们都喜欢穿黑色衣服的人。
In an interview, I lose control even of what I am, for it is the interviewer who edits me, finally, into what he thinks I am, and never have I been happy with someone else's version of my life after that person has spent an entire two or three hours fathoming it.
在一次采访中,我甚至失去控制我,面试官是谁编辑的我,最后,他认为我,我从未有过快乐与别人的版本我生命的那个人花了整个两或三个小时彻底了解它。
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I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.
我花在道奇队票上的钱比花在车上的钱还多。
I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
在过去的十年里,我几乎走遍了那里的每一个战区。
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
我们的生命是用来度过的,而不是用来拯救的。
I've spent my life being embarrassed.
我这辈子都在尴尬中度过。
I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.
我的职业生涯一直在与保险公司最恶劣的做法作斗争。