A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
表面
Surface
Vanity is but the surface.
虚荣心只是表面。
What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
曾经在地下的东西现在正在浮出水面。
A deeper thought on the surface is exactly the paradox we need.
从表面上看,更深层次的思考正是我们所需要的悖论。
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
风格是不断被呼唤到表面的主体的实质。
I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.
我从来没有见过一个表面,我认为是更诱人的图像制作。
Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
妇女有权说:这是表面现象,这是歪曲事实,这是堕落。
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
像鸭子一样。表面上很平静,但内心却像狄更斯一样不停地划动。
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
地球表面的三分之二被水覆盖。另外三分之一由总部的审计员负责。
If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.
如果人们选择在一个一维的层面上参与,那很好。但是,超越表面可以丰富我们作为人类自己。
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
从表面上看,我们都表现得好像我们彼此相爱,我们自由自在,实际上,我们比我所生活过的任何一个社会都更崇尚道德。
It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
同样具有讽刺意味的是,在过去磁带和磁带嘶嘶声,黑胶唱片和表面噪音的日子里,我们总是试图让唱片声音越来越大来克服这一点。
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。
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We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.
我们被告知现代人的问题在于他一直试图使自己脱离自然。在这种情况下,人类作为一种巨大的致命力量出现,而地球被描绘成一种微妙的东西,就像一个乡村池塘表面升起的气泡,或者脆弱的鸟类的飞翔。
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
就在水面下,我将会,一开始都在一起,然后分离和漂流,穿过整个地球,也许最后穿过悬崖进入大海,成为我的一部分。一亩地里有一吨虫子,这是个好主意,一吨虫子,我相信。