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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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。
Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today.
作为国家足球联盟的一员,我已经经历了这么长时间,我遇到了这么多的教练和设备经理,他们让我成为了今天的我。
Things are going to be okay. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but eventually, it will all okay.
一切都会好起来的。也许不是今天,也许不是明天,但最终,一切都会好起来的。
Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.
今天,教区比以往任何时候都更像是一个缩影。
Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.
唉,不管他们的命运如何,这些小受害者还是在玩耍!他们不知道将来会有什么灾难,也不关心今天以后会发生什么。
Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.
如今,你真的必须要拍出大片,才能享受得到大量作品的奢侈,这很悲哀,因为作品受到了影响。今天一切都以钱为基础。年长的演员,他们激励着我。