A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
虽然
Though
Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
不要依赖计划外的音乐;这听起来像是事先计划好的,但其实是你为了躲避而穿过街道的某个人的计划。
Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
因为不管出于什么原因,即使我想一直呆在家里,一个人呆着,我想告诉世界我现在是谁。
It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal.
是的,我们想做一张唱片来反映我们对硬摇滚音乐的热爱,这是一种金属,尽管我们并没有把自己描述成金属。
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
因为尽管我们常常需要恢复到小的、具体的、有限的和确定的状态,我们同样也常常需要被提醒到大的、模糊的、无限的、未知的状态。
I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
我觉得在憨豆先生的生活中,摄像机几乎就是一种偷窥者,而你只是看着这个奇怪的男人按照他想要的方式生活。
I don't mind my eyebrows. They add... something to me. I wouldn't say they were my best feature, though. People tell me they like my eyes. They distract from the eyebrows.
我不介意我的眉毛。他们添加…我的东西。不过,我不会说它们是我最好的特征。人们告诉我他们喜欢我的眼睛。它们分散了人们对眉毛的注意力。
It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
就好像我所有的敌意、焦虑和冲突都集中在一个球里,飞向太空,离我越来越远,让我心满意足。
I'll eat anything. I ate antelope once in Swaziland. I didn't know what it was until I'd started chewing it. Everything tastes like chicken though doesn't it? It wasn't bad.
我吃任何东西。我曾经在斯威士兰吃过羚羊。直到我开始咀嚼它,我才知道它是什么。所有的东西尝起来都像鸡肉,不是吗?它不是坏的。
Sometimes I feel people think I live on a commune but I don't. We are all solar, though. There are no power lines. It's mostly farmers, so everyone who has tractors uses bio-diesel.
有时我觉得人们以为我住在公社里,但我没有。然而,我们都是太阳能。没有电线。大部分是农民,所以每个拥有拖拉机的人都使用生物柴油。
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
永不枯竭的善良天性是上天赐予我们的最珍贵的礼物之一,它像油一样在纷乱的思想海洋上喷薄欲出,在最恶劣的天气里也能保持头脑的平静。
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
在我看来,艺术作品是物质世界中唯一具有内在秩序的对象,这就是为什么,虽然我不认为只有艺术才重要,但我相信艺术是为了艺术而艺术。
When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
当你是一个木匠在做一个漂亮的五斗橱时,你不会在它的背面使用胶合板,即使它面对着墙,没有人会看到它。你会知道它在那里,所以你要在背面用一块漂亮的木头。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I hate the way that, even though I've moved on, you still sneak into my mind.
我讨厌这样的方式,即使我已经离开,你仍然潜入我的脑海。
I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal.
我喜欢去买烟花,尽管有些是违法的。
I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot.
我没有笑得那么多,尽管我内心经常微笑。
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
一个人即使犯了更多的错误,也要精神抖擞,总比心胸狭窄、过于谨慎要好。
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
老年有其乐趣,这些乐趣虽然不同,但并不亚于青年的乐趣。
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
啊,虽然外面有天使,但人的内心隐藏着什么呢?