A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
今天
Today
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
今天，成为雄辩典范的不是教室，也不是经典著作，而是广告公司。
Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.
今天，所有的东西都必须由委员会制作，必须有特效，但总有好的电影的空间。
I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!
我今天要做面部整形手术。但是，要想让我重新变得美丽，还需要一些花俏的针法!
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
一棵从地里长出来的树今天和以前一样好。它不需要采取令人吃惊的新方法。
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
今天是不寻常的一天，因为我们从未经历过;我们不会再活下去了;这是我们唯一的一天。
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
今天，漫画是少数几种仍有机会听到个人声音的大众传播形式之一。
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
我试图用今天的语言来表达我和世界正在经历的普遍存在危机。
You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'
你知道，实际上有人称赞我今天的驾驶技术。他们在挡风玻璃上留了一个小纸条，上面写着“停车罚款”。
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
不要为昨天的遗憾付利息，也不要为明天的困难预先借贷，从而使我们今天的生活破产。
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!
嘿,这里!和一个隐居的作家合影吧!只有今天，我们才会赠送免费签名!等等，还有呢!
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
就像今天的公寓一样，房屋的露台从相同的立面获得了某种匿名性，遵循相同的平面和高度。
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
今天的偶像把昨天的英雄从我们的记忆中推开;反过来，他也将被明天的继任者所取代。
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
经济学家是专家，他明天就会知道为什么他昨天预测的事情今天没有发生。
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
今天，我们非常依赖廉价能源。我们只是认为这是理所当然的——你家里的所有东西，行业运作的方式。
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
今天就是你昨天担心的明天。
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
舞者，今天的许多舞者在技术上可以做很多。你可以给他们一些复杂的步骤，然后是更复杂的，烟火的——他们可以把这些步骤执行到完美。但要用纯古典的线条做简单的步骤，确实很难。
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
今天所有重要的艺术都源于概念艺术。这包括装置艺术，政治，女权主义和社会导向的艺术。
I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.
我不打算寻求你们的支持，因为今天前面有一片蓝天。