A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
坚持
Stick
Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.
坚持基本原则，抓住你的家人和朋友——他们永远不会过时。
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
是的，阅读是件大事。书是一件大事。但最引人注目的是报纸。
We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
我们不能让自己偏离轨道，不管发生什么，我们必须坚持我们的自然游戏。
My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'
我妈妈总是说:‘做你想做的，但要坚持下去。不要动摇。不要为了任何人而改变你自己。”
Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.
情景喜剧已经过时了——它们都遵循套路。我讨厌他们的老式音乐。我讨厌使用笑轨。
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
如果你创造了一个有很多故事价值的好故事……我认为观众喜欢这样。这就是为什么他们一遍又一遍地坚持看同一个电视节目。
I don't have any tattoos - I live vicariously through my sister, Langley, who has many. If I can't stick to one ensemble, I don't think I could stick to one tattoo.
我没有纹身——我通过我姐姐兰利来代替我生活，她有很多纹身。如果我不能坚持一套服装，我想我也不能坚持一个纹身。
All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
好吧，每一天都不会是你生命中最美好的一天，别担心。如果你坚持下去，你就有可能拥有更好的日子。
Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.
鲸鱼只有在浮出水面时才会被鱼叉叉住，海龟只有在伸出脖子时才会向前移动，但投资者无论如何都要面临风险。
I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.
这些年来，我受到了很多批评，但有一件事让我非常恼火，那就是有人质疑我的诚信。这是唯一一件真正让你恼火的事。
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.
在很长一段时间里，我一直信奉不可知论，因为我只是不愿意说我是一个无神论者——作为一个无神论者似乎太死板了。但我对这个词越熟悉，读得越多，它就越能让我接受。
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
作家不可能被驯服，变得文明，甚至被治愈。目前科学界所知的唯一解决办法是为病人提供一间隔离室，在那里他可以独自忍受急性期，食物可以用棍子戳进他的身体。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.
伙计，我扔根棍子。来吧。我拿着一份相当不错的薪水，可以随便丢东西。
A stick is a peacemaker.
棍棒是和事佬。
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
只要我们坚持足够长时间，我们可以做任何我们想做的事。
One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
我的经理说过的最愚蠢的话之一就是，坚持旋律。但我不能。
Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.
小说作家应该坚持写作，而不是出现在小组讨论节目或作为一个会说话的人。
I must stick with Chinese language films.
我必须坚持看华语电影。