A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
活动
Activity
Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
那些欣赏简单部落生活方式的人,他们的每一项活动都是直接的,可以立即理解的,他们能够与简单部落生活在一起。
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
正确的纪律不在于外在的强迫,而在于能自发地导致可取而非不可取的行为的心理习惯。
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
几乎没有一项活动,一项事业,像爱情一样,一开始就抱着巨大的希望和期望,但却常常以失败告终。
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
痴迷是人类最浪费时间的行为,因为沉迷于一个问题,你会反反复复地问同一个问题,却永远得不到答案。
Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.
由于我所受的教养的性质,我所有的精力都集中在一种活动上,被其他活动打断,甚至无法生存。
It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.
值得注意的是,这个民族虽然没有武装,却敢于攻击武装的敌人;步兵向骑兵挑战,他们的行动和勇气通常证明他们是胜利者。
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
构成一个时代文化的各种形式的智力活动,在很大程度上是由不同的起点和不相连的道路所构成的。
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
随着时间的推移,我做了一些运动,让角色变得轻松一点,在情节、户外活动、骑马、击剑和登山中加入一些浪漫元素。
For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.
对我来说,看恐怖片最完美的时间之一就是外面又冷又下雨,几乎没有什么户外活动可做的时候。这是一种氛围。
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
参加每一项活动,不要在心理上承认失败的可能性。专注于你的优点,而不是缺点…靠你的能力,而不是你的问题。
The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.
当今时代需要壮年时期的活力和活动;但我感到年事已高,体弱多病,我知道我不能为你效劳。
All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
所有的运动……是少数几个年轻人可以沿着传统道路进行的活动之一,在传统道路上,目标是明确的,对胜利的渴望不仅是允许的,而且是受到鼓励的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
人们所说的公正可能仅仅意味着漠不关心,而人们所说的偏袒可能仅仅意味着精神活动。
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
也许是时候停止称其为“环保主义者”的观点了,就好像它是人类活动主流之外的一种游说努力,而开始称其为现实世界的观点。
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
我到处旅行,通过阅读和写作,我创造了这种读写能力的幻觉。我写了一本短篇小说。
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
一个有高水平志愿活动的社会,将比一个没有志愿活动的社会更美好、更幸福。
Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.
一旦你选择了一项运动或一项创造性的活动,规则几乎是一样的。
Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
我们的一切行为,和我们的一生,都是专为神的,因为我们立志要在神的事上有长进。