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事情
Things
We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
我们一直很不理解为什么右翼会这么做。
Sometimes, the best things in life come out of the worst situations.
有时候,生活中最美好的事情都是在最糟糕的情况下发生的。
We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.
我们离目标只有一步之遥,并不是真正的中心。
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
有三样东西不能长久隐藏:太阳、月亮和真理。
What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
除了带来好东西之外,这个阴谋究竟意味着什么?
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
我生命中所有的男人都是两件事:史诗和流行病。
We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
我们已经学会了如何做很多事情。我们必须重新学习原因。
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
我们总是渴望被禁止的东西,渴望被拒绝的东西。
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
科学和文学不是两个东西,而是同一事物的两个方面。
The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.
一切事物的时间性给我留下了深刻的印象。
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
作为一个家庭,将我们联系在一起的因素之一是共同的幽默感。
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
从谷中可以看见大异象;只有从小事做起。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
诗歌不是一种职业,而是一种徒劳无益的游戏。没有一个诚实的诗人能对他所写的东西的永久价值有十足的把握:他可能白白浪费了时间,把生活搞得一团糟。
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
我发现我可以用颜色和形状来表达我无法用其他方式表达的东西——那些我无法用语言表达的东西。
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
世界上大多数重要的事情都是由那些在似乎没有任何希望的时候继续努力的人完成的。
Stop waiting for things to happen go out and make them happen.
不要再等待事情的发生,走出去让它们发生。
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
生活是世界上最珍贵的东西。大多数人是存在的,仅此而已。
It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
只有真正的军人才能留在音乐行业,依靠摆在我面前的东西生活,并且能够一直生存下去,因为这并不容易。