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精神
Spirit
If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
如果我们从一粒麦粒中找到的生命的火花可以通过无数的死亡和复活而不变地传递下去,那么人类的灵魂就不能从这个身体传递到另一个身体吗?
Let us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.
让我们怀着对国王的敬意,怀着对他的敬意;说到他的时候,要带着慈爱、尊敬和崇敬;并通过在他人身上推广类似的精神和行为。
The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.
逻辑分析的精神在实践中应与采用某种形式的国际语言的实际压力相结合,但不应使自己受到这种压力的阻碍。
There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.
有些人拥有丰富和快乐的品质,他们把这种品质传达给他们接触到的每一件事。首先是身体素质;那么这就是精神的一种品质。
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
正如做最邪恶、最邪恶的事需要精神和才能一样,即使是最邪恶的事也需要某种麻木不仁,在其他情况下,我们称之为愚蠢。
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
闭上你身体的眼睛,这样你可以先用圣灵的眼睛看见你的图画。然后将你在黑暗中所见的彰显出来,这样它的效果就会从外到内发生作用。
The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.
这位史诗诗人在作品的创作中融入了时代精神。也就是说,如果他成功了;时间可以拒绝和他一起工作,但他不能拒绝和他的时间一起工作。
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
在每个人的生活中,总有那么一段时间,我们内心的火焰熄灭了。然后,它会因为与另一个人的相遇而燃烧起来。我们都应该感谢那些重新点燃内在精神的人。
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
每一个真正的祷告都是教会的祷告;因为那住在教会里的圣灵,在各人心里,用说不出来的叹息,在我们里面祷告。
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.
对一种没有任何单一国家单位认同的表达形式的共同忠诚,很可能成为迄今世界所知的人类精神自由的最有力象征之一。
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
后代不太可能爱上我们,但也不是不可能尊重或同情我们;所以一个人宁愿留下他的精神画像,也不愿留下他的脸画像。
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
诱惑的全部神秘之处在于,它向我们暗示了罪恶,并被一种突如其来的热情所扫荡,这种热情有时和上帝在我们身上所产生的对美德的热情一样强烈。
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I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
我是一个红种人。如果伟大的精神希望我成为一个白人,他首先就会让我成为一个白人。
This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.
这意味着思想或精神存在于任何地方,因为它不依附于任何特定的地方。它之所以能保持存在,是因为即使当它与这个或那个物体相联系时,它也不会因为反射而依附于它,从而失去它最初的灵活性。
Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.
做一个身下有泥土的灵魂,好过做一具被世界的重量压得紧紧的尸体。
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
赋予事物的精神决定了承认债务的精神;衡量的是礼物的心意,而不是它的表面价值。
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
大自然总是带着精神的色彩。
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
当你回顾你的生活时,你会发现,当你真正活过的时候,正是你怀着爱的精神去做事情的时候。