A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
旅行
Travel
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
旅行,曾经是一种必需品或一种冒险,现在在很大程度上已成为一种商品,从各个方面我们都被说服认为这也是一种社会需求。
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
旅行时,你会意识到差异已经消失了:每个城市都变得与所有城市相似,各个地方交换了它们的形式、秩序、距离,一片无形的尘雾侵入了大陆。
When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa.
当我出国旅行的时候,因为我是哥伦比亚人,我总是被他们检查两次,我是他们打开我包的那个人,他们把我拉到一边检查签证的那个人。
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
当一个地方拥挤到需要身份证的程度时,社会崩溃就不远了。是时候去别的地方了。太空旅行最好的地方是它使去其他地方成为可能。
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
旅行者很活跃;他孜孜不倦地探索着人,探索着冒险,探索着经验。游客是被动的;他期待着有趣的事情发生在他身上。他“观光”。
We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.
如今,我们把很多自由都视为理所当然——我可以去任何我喜欢的地方旅行,我可以在我喜欢的时候生孩子,我可以做任何我想做的工作——但我确实认为骑士精神已经有点丧失了。
Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
还记得比尔博曾经说过的话吗:佛罗多,出门是件危险的事。你走在路上,如果你不站稳脚步,谁也不知道你会被带到哪里去。
You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.
你周游全国,参观各个部门,做演讲,谈论你实验室的工作——发生了什么,那里有什么机会——谈论你自己的研究。
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
也许旅行不能阻止偏见,但通过展示所有人的哭泣、欢笑、吃饭、担忧和死亡,它可以引入这样一种观念:如果我们试着去理解彼此,我们甚至可能成为朋友。
I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I've never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly as a child.
我不像许多人那样特别喜欢旅行。我知道很多人喜欢去遥远的不同的地方,我从来没有像那样。我似乎像个孩子一样,很快就想家了。
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
我将把我的钱放在这个家庭身上,为他们提供无穷无尽的喜剧、悲剧和阴谋。
I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
我迫不及待地想要开始自己的事业,让那些没有签约的乐队得到应有的曝光,尤其是当他们远道而来,参加他们一生中最小的演出时。
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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
大自然悬在天上的星星,用永恒的油把它们的灯注满了,给那些误入歧途的孤独的旅客以应有的光亮。
Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
网球是一种精神上的坚韧,你必须在比赛中保持头脑清醒。我抽时间放松自己,远离竞争压力、旅行和紧张的训练计划,以确保自己能照顾好自己。花时间和家人朋友在一起有助于保持每个人都需要的工作和生活的平衡。
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
帐篷上总是下雨。暴风雨会行进数千英里,顶着盛行的风,有机会在帐篷上淋雨。
Some roads aren't meant to be travelled alone.
有些路并不是要一个人走的。
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
当旅行者独自旅行时,他开始了解自己。
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
愚者徘徊,智者远行。