A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
千
Thousand
A picture is worth a thousand words.
一幅画胜过千言万语。
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
胜利有一千个父亲,而失败是一个孤儿。
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
漂亮的只有一种,丑陋的有一千种。
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
我的记忆比我一千年的记忆还要丰富。
There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.
有成千上万的废奴主义者是自由贸易者。
Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
生活是一本书,有一千页我还没有读。
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
爱情只有一种,模仿却有一千种。
For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday.
由于缺乏关注,我们每天都会失去一千种形式的可爱。
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
我解放了一千名奴隶,如果他们知道自己是奴隶,我本可以再解放一千名的。
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
有常识而没有教育比有教育而没有常识好一千倍。
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
我听到了关于宇宙的说法,听到了,听到了几千年;就目前而言,它还算不错——但就这些吗?
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
与其赢得一千场战斗,不如征服自己。那么胜利就是你的了。无论是天使、是鬼魔、是天堂、是地狱、都不能夺去你的灵魂。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.
我写作是为了让人们读我写的东西。我不想写一本一千多人读过的书,或者只是特权阶层的人读过的书。我想写一本人们能够理解其中情感真相的书。对我来说,就是这样。
With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.
有了第四代核能,你就可以拥有一种可以燃烧燃料中99%以上能量的技术。这意味着你在接下来的一千年里不需要开采铀。
The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.
一千头羊在好草场上的毛,一年至少得五十马克,两千一百马克,依此类推,以千计。
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.
令人惊奇的是,几千年来,人们一直在不断地质疑和探索,并最终得出结论,某些事情发生的原因是人类无法知道的。