A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
今天
Today
The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.
今天的统治阶级坚信，民族仇恨和敌对是不可避免的。
I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?
我想今天我不会被问到的一个问题是:你什么时候会对手机做些什么?
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
当它建成的时候，没有什么比火车站更现代的了，也没有什么比它今天更过时的了。
You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.
在当今世界，你必须有文化修养。我们不能因为不教男孩子读书而逍遥法外。
Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
今天，西方列强和媒体想要像驯养绵羊一样驯养我们，让我们变得驯服。
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。
There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
在今天的世界里，存在着这样一种怀疑，认为人们做的事情不止一件，而且不够专业。
Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.
今天的大多数团体都不是团体。在一个真正的团体中，所有的成员都在自己之间创造安排。
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。
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
当我还是个孩子的时候，我的一生都在为被骗而感到惊讶。我喜欢被骗。今天我仍然喜欢它。
Today could be the start of the first day of your life. Isn't that something? how beautiful. How astonishing.
今天可能是你人生第一天的开始。那不是东西吗?多么美丽。如何惊人。
The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.
世界历史上最伟大的国家遭受袭击。所以所有这些在今天都没有多大意义。
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The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.
我今天来到这里的另一个原因，同样来自国务院和上诉法院的法庭记录，是当我在国外时，我大声疾呼反对这片土地上对黑人的不公正。
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”。
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。
If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
如果罗斯福今天还活着，他会在坟墓里翻来覆去。
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
今天对万物物理理论的关注，偏离了科学的目的——无情地质疑万物。现代物理学已经变得像斯威夫特的拉皮塔王国，荒谬地飞在地球上方的一个岛上，对地球下方的一切漠不关心。
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
讲故事是将想法带入当今世界最有力的方式。