A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
无聊
Boredom
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
人类幸福的两个敌人是痛苦和无聊。
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
永久的假期是地狱的一个很好的定义。
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
寻求休息的人感到无聊。找工作的人得到休息。
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
懒惰会让你把无聊变成快乐。
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
我有一个伟大的抱负,死于疲劳而不是无聊。
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
太多的教堂礼拜从十一点整开始,到十二点整结束。
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
无聊是万恶之源——绝望地拒绝做自己。
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
无聊难道不比一个人的官能慢慢消失的感觉更少吗?
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
乘飞机旅行时,几个小时的无聊被片刻的恐怖所打断。
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
让自己无聊的人比无聊的人更可鄙。
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
永远珍惜那些让你独一无二的东西,因为如果它消失了,你真的会打哈欠。
The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
我在郊区长大,最主要的收获就是童年的无聊。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
懒惰的人往往是无聊的,无聊的人,除非他们睡得多,是残酷的。在我们这个时代,无聊和残酷是人们最关心的事情,这并非偶然。
Boredom comes from a boring mind.
无聊来自无聊的思想。
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
通向自由的不是简单的事实陈述;正是不断地重复它们才产生了这种解放的效果。宽容不是启蒙的结果,而是厌倦的结果。
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
每个人对某些人来说都是讨厌的。这是不重要的。要避免的事情是成为一个无聊的自己。
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
真正的旅行者会发现无聊与其说是痛苦不如说是愉悦。这是他自由的象征——他过度的自由。当无聊来的时候,他接受它,不仅是哲学上的,而且几乎是愉快的。