A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
生存
Survive
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
长久以来，我们与文明最亲密的接触一直是通过艺术来实现的。
I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.
我想知道，我之所以倾向于对每件事都说“是”，是不是因为我深信我能挺过任何事情。
Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.
你知道，爱在你死后不会消失。人会死，身体会枯萎，但爱，它会存活。
All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
我所要做的就是活下去，从他们给我的肮脏、肮脏、令人难以置信的生活方式中走出来。
Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.
失去某件事的可能性和失去希望是一回事，没有希望，什么也不能生存。
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
极端乐观主义者相信，即使不采纳他的建议，人类也可能生存下来。
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
有些邪恶有能力在认同中存活，并永远存在……比如钱，或者战争。
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
在经历了一场深刻的悲剧之后，没有任何日常的不幸或侮辱能够真正损害你的自我意识。
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
错误的文学批评太多了。这就是为什么我不可能作为一个学者生存下来。
Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
许多在悲剧中幸存下来的人最终对危险产生了矛盾心理——害怕危险，但又奇怪地被危险吸引。
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
请注意，最坚硬的树最容易折断，而竹子或柳树则靠随风弯曲而存活。
The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.
生存的意志没有获胜的意志重要。对付犯罪侵略的办法是报复。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
只有一个乐观主义者。自从人类来到这个世界上，他就一直在这里，那就是人类自己。如果我们没有如此乐观的心态来度过这一切，我们就不会在这里。我们靠乐观度过了难关。
To live is to suffer, but to survive, well that's to find meaning in the suffering.
活着就是受苦，但要活下去，那就要在受苦中找到意义。
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
这就是抑郁症的原因:一个人几乎可以在任何事情上生存，只要她看到末日就在眼前。但抑郁症是如此的潜伏，它每天都在加剧，根本不可能看到它的尽头。雾就像一个没有钥匙的笼子。
We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.
我们过去常常用水桶洗头，靠烤三明治、巧克力和汤维生。
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
有创造力的成年人是幸存下来的孩子。
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
没有一种作战计划能在与敌人接触后幸存下来。