A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
无聊
Boredom
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
无聊就是觉得一切都是在浪费时间;宁静,什么都不是。
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
当我们因懒惰而退缩时,我们就陷入了无聊之中。
In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?
在市场营销中,你必须在无聊、叫喊和诱惑之间做出选择。你想要哪一个?
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
自动化社会的主要产物是一种普遍的、不断加深的无聊感。
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
然而,正是在我们的懒散中,在我们的梦想中,被淹没的真相有时会浮出水面。
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
为了自由快乐地生活,你必须牺牲无聊。这并不总是一个容易的牺牲。
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。
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
一旦你踏上游艇,你就属于某个男人,而不是你自己,你就会死于无聊。
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
多样化不仅仅是一种避免无聊的方法,因为艺术不仅仅是感官的娱乐。
Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young.
无聊是一个强大的原因,而乐趣的前景是一个强大的吸引力——尤其是当你还年轻的时候。
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
无聊是……这对道德家来说是一个至关重要的问题,因为人类一半的罪恶都是由对罪恶的恐惧造成的。
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
如果你是激情的对象,那就跳出窗外。如果你感觉到了,就逃离它。激情一去不复返,无聊依旧。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
Even boredom has its crises.
甚至无聊也有它的危机。
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
无聊只是魅力的反面:两者都依赖于外在而非内在的情境,而其中一个会导致另一个。
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
无聊对道德家来说是一个至关重要的问题,因为人类至少有一半的罪恶是由对无聊的恐惧造成的。