A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
今天
Today
I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.
我非常疯狂地想要做我今天想做的尽可能多的事情。其余的可以等到明天,下个星期,如果我在的话,我们去看看。
Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.
他们今天所说的关于埃尔维斯的一切都是真的。他只是一个伟大的人。他不嫉妒任何人。如果你把这些都加起来,我会说猫王真的很特别。
But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.
但是,在那种艰苦的环境中,一个人靠写作谋生的想法似乎是那么的不可思议,以至于即使在今天,我有时也会有一种不真实的感觉。
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
作为当今的画家,你必须在没有这个基本平台的情况下工作。但是,如果一个人不欺骗自己,不接受这种不确定性,其他的事情可能会起作用。
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
今天棒球最大的问题是,大多数球员在比赛中是为了钱,而不是为了热爱它,为它而兴奋,为它而激动。
Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.
今天,我们不再把宇宙看作是我们自己不应该遇到的麻烦的根源,相反,也许我们把宇宙看作是我们对尘世事务管理不善的最后避难所。
The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.
这场疾病,以及我的兄弟们的英年早逝,让我意识到——而不仅仅是思考——今天做你想做的事是至关重要的。
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
今天的人们有时会对似乎与他们的政治假设相冲突的经验主义主张感到不安,这往往是因为他们没有过多考虑这些联系。
It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery.
今天很难说科索沃战争对塞尔维亚人民来说是一场失败还是一场胜利,是由于这场战争,我们沦为奴隶,还是在这场奴隶制度中生存下来。
Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out.
那时和今天完全不一样。所以你会去保龄球馆。我们打了个保龄球,你可以在后面你可以亲热,知道吗?你也知道那有多热。
If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'
如果你写了一些白宫不喜欢的东西,他们会让你进去说,‘如果你写了一些像今天这样的东西,白宫里就不会有人再跟你说话了。’
To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.
今天能来到这里,我感到非常幸运,因为我有第二次机会,我的唱片公司相信我,这里的每一个人都对我表示了如此多的爱和支持。
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All of my past challenges have helped me become who I am today.
所有过去的挑战都帮助我成为今天的我。
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候,却给他们插花。
The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.
我们今天知道的一件事是,我们不能再像过去那样做生意了。
So today I say, the outlook in Georgia has never been brighter.
因此,今天我要说,格鲁吉亚的前景从未像今天这样光明。
Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.
与今天的工资相比,我们的削减幅度很小,但在当时是非常好的。
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
今天知识有力量。它控制着获得机会和晋升的机会。