A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
他们说
They Say
They say miracles are past.
他们说奇迹已经过去了。
I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.
正如他们所说，我是一个典型的饥饿艺术家。
They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
他们说我是革命者，但他们都错了。
They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.
他们说我是天生的，我有天生的魅力。人们说。我不知道。
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
他们说诗人主要是为自己写作;如果有人喜欢它，那很好，如果不喜欢，也没关系;当然，对我来说不是。
They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.
他们把你拖到那里，你知道，一周又一周，在这样的星际室里。最后他们说，我们什么也没找到，但现在是特别检察官的时候了。
They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
他们说我们的君王凌驾于他的律法之上，他可以随心所欲地制定和违反律法，没有任何区别。事实正好相反，否则他不应该发誓遵守诺言。
They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.
他们说那些杀不死你的东西会让你更强大，我也学到了很多，但你永远无法预测未来，所以最好的办法就是尽你所能去做任何你被要求做的事情。
There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'
对于一个故事应该是什么样的，有一种奇怪的坚持。“主角必须有同情心!””他们说。不管这意味着什么。我从不参与那种讨论。我从来没用过‘同情’这个词。我只知道“有意思”。
If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.
如果你想成为一名作家，你必须有自信，每个作家都会被拒绝，他们说成功和不成功作家的区别在于一个不成功的作家放弃了，如果你坚持下去，你就会成功。
They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.
他们说它伟大的责备国王再次把他给了什么,使他们不受他自己的好,也不是土地,也不是没收,也没有任何其他的好但是他们问它从他,否则他们收受贿赂别人为他得到它。