A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
气质
Temperament
Music inflames temperament.
音乐点燃气质。
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
很少有艺术家能负担得起艺术气质。
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
艺术气质是折磨业余爱好者的疾病。
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
一件艺术品是独特气质的独特产物。
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dream killers.
热情的性格使人很容易成为梦想杀手。
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
与傻瓜签订协议是我的命运,或许也是我的性格使然。
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
科学气质的一部分是对同时持有多种假设的容忍。
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
年龄不取决于年龄,而取决于气质和健康。有些人生来就老,有些人却永远不会老。
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
与作家有密切关系的人,除了认为他做得太过火之外,谁也不欣赏他的气质。
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.
当我还是一个戴着拳击手套在西区玩耍的孩子时,出于某种性情上的原因,我对躲避一击比对击打更感兴趣。
Failure had to change him. When you ask what my role is: From an attorney position, it's having the right systems in place. From a friend perspective, he needed the right temperament.
失败改变了他。当你问我的角色是什么时:从律师的角度来说,我的角色是建立正确的体系。从朋友的角度来看,他需要合适的气质。
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.
心和头脑是性格的组成部分;性情几乎与此无关,因此,性格依赖于教育,容易被纠正和改进。
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
因此,重要的不是评论家应该对智慧的美有一个正确的抽象定义,而是一种气质,一种被美的存在深深打动的力量。
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
任何一位成功的候选人都应该具备解读法律的气质和公正解读法律的智慧。下一任最高法院法官应该有保护个人权利的记录,并强烈愿意搁置任何政治议程。