A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
事情
Things
I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
我对望远镜和它们的工作方式很感兴趣，因为我有一种强烈的欲望，想看看东西是什么样子的，所以我学会了如何使用望远镜，在天空中发现东西。
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
尽管有种种障碍、挫折和不可能，但坚韧不拔、锲而不舍和坚持不懈，正是这一点使强者区别于弱者。
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.
这些文章都是非常自我主义和自我中心的，我完全意识到这一点。对我来说，写书很有趣，我基本上只写自己觉得有趣的东西。
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
对于一个有孩子的家庭来说，如果一切进行得相当顺利，那么毫无疑问，所有其他形式的成功和成就相比就失去了它们的重要性。
Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.
你知道，气味是如此强大。我奶奶会烤一些东西，比如松脆面包和饼干。我觉得每当我闻到那种味道，我就会想起我的童年。
I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
我总是否认这一点，但我想我真正想说的是，我写作是为了震惊……我挖得很深，把当时使我着迷的各种丑恶的东西都挖了出来。
One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
在我的房子里，在假日里发生的一件事就是饭后甜点，我们坐下来玩一个非常有野心的男人对女人的琐碎的追求游戏。这是残酷的。还有一个奖杯。
But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
但这是一段旅程，可悲的是你只能从经验中学习，所以只要有人能告诉你很多事情，你就必须走出去，为了学习而犯自己的错误。
Golf isn't first on my list anymore. There are a lot of things ahead of golf and I have to go ahead and do those things so I can play golf. I'm tired of hurting. Tired of fighting pain.
高尔夫不再是我的首选。在打高尔夫球之前还有很多事情要做，我必须要做这些事情，这样我才能打高尔夫球。我受够了伤害。厌倦了与痛苦作斗争。
Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
尤其是家庭，往往是你认为理所当然的。所有这些重要的事情，他们似乎都没有被注意到——这样做几乎成了第二天性。
At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.
在入口处，我光着脚踩在泥地上，这里，阵阵热浪;在我的背上，白云。我瞪了又瞪。我被召，似乎是要这样:因为事物本来就是荣耀的。
I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.
我认为，作为北方人，我们对南方有很多负面的刻板印象。我们忘记了他们为这个国家所做的一切美好的事情。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
当然，思想开放的问题在于，人们会坚持走过去，并试图把东西放进去。
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
艺术产生丑陋的东西，而丑陋的东西往往随着时间的推移而变得更加美丽。另一方面，时尚产生的美丽的东西总是随着时间变得丑陋。
I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
我真的没有过那种激动人心的生活。有很多事情我希望我能做，而不是坐在那里抱怨有一个无聊的生活。所以我很喜欢编造。我宁愿讲一个关于别人的故事。
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。
If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
如果你不让事情发生，那么事情就会发生在你身上。
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
我们不能设想物质是无中生有的，因为事物需要一粒种子从……因此，没有什么东西会归于虚无，而是所有的东西都回归到它们的元素中去了。