A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
尝试
Trying
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.
试图通过积累财富来获得快乐,就像试图通过把三明治贴满全身来满足饥饿一样。
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
当然,思想开放的问题在于,人们会坚持走过去,并试图把东西放进去。
You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.
你可以通过对他们感兴趣而在一个月内交到更多的朋友,而不是通过让他们对你感兴趣而在十年内交到更多的朋友。
I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.
我喜欢阅读有关健康饮食的书籍,并向我丈夫说教,但他却不听。现在我正试着把它教给我的女儿们。
So this is my life. And i want you to know that i am both happy and sad and i'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
这就是我的生活。我想让你们知道,我既快乐又悲伤,我还在想这是怎么回事。
I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.
我只是喜欢不断地挑战自己,保持多样化。这是一门手艺,我一直在努力学习并变得更好。
You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
你可以说我们太努力了,或者我们不够努力,但是我们根本没有努力;我们只是在做我们该做的。
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
我试图用今天的语言来表达我和世界正在经历的普遍存在危机。
At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.
有时我在试图在传统事物和我自己的个性之间找到平衡点的过程中会遇到困难。
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
大多数旋律都是我试着找出适合的音符,然后以一种非常有趣的方式敲出不适合的音符。
I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.
我会在我的房间里呆上几天,有时几天,只是想把它整理好,想知道我的下一个阶段会是什么。
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
如果我试图阅读,更不用说回答,所有对我的攻击,这家商店可能会关闭任何其他业务。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.
这就是科学想要解决的问题,我喜欢解决问题。
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
我们不是想重新发明轮子;任何环境组织声称对任何一种胜利负有唯一责任都是疯狂的,因为每个人都是作为一个群体来攻击这些问题的。
I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.
我曾经有过这样的时刻,我意识到我的身体承受不了更多的赛季,但我对我的职业生涯非常满意,我试着不把退休看成是一件悲伤的事情。
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
如果一个人把他的一生都奉献给了担任公职,并试图为他的人民做些什么,那么“政治家”这个词本身就有什么问题?
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
试图定义自己就像咬紧牙关一样。
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
当我开始写作的时候,我认为文学被包含在一个泡沫中,这个泡沫以某种方式漂浮在报纸评论的世界之上。但我越来越有兴趣尝试在我的作品中融入一些这样的世界。