A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
尝试
Trying
A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.
一个糟糕的投资是追求数量而不是质量。如果你想小心你的钱包,尤其是现在的经济形势,你必须选择主食。
I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.
我曾尝试用这种病毒来预防接种斑疹伤寒,并试图用大型动物生产大量血清,但都没有成功。
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
我明白了衡量成功的标准不是看一个人在生活中所处的地位,而是看他在努力成功的过程中所克服的障碍。
I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally.
我正努力为自己创造机会,这样我就不会只有一个出口可以依靠,无论是经济上、情感上还是精神上的支持系统。
Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
也许最大的挑战是为了做好我的工作,尽量把我的时间和我的私人生活保密。现在,我的一切都属于每一个人。
On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture.
至于其他一些,我觉得在片场的感觉很有氛围,可能也很神秘。我们想要捕捉的那种气氛让人感觉有点不自在。
So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.
所以对于一个吹小号的人来说,这真的很难去适应。但我完全投入到尝试去改变那些范式,去寻找一个能够发挥作用的神奇空间,并尝试去挖掘它。
I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.
我知道我以唱高音而闻名,但那真的不是让人起鸡皮疙瘩的全部。这是真正的尝试去发现是什么让你独一无二。
The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.
我们消耗的石油越多,这些石油要么来自那些执意破坏我们的地方,要么来自那些帮助我们的人的地方……我们越是帮助那些试图杀害我们的人。
I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.
我只是不处理消极的事情。我不能参与其中。我不明白,你不能让它从你的生活和你想做的事情中消失。
What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.
我们试图做的是解决我在国会看到的一个主要问题,也就是说能源可以说是我们国家面临的最根本的问题。
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
我总是试图通过每一本书来重现我们小时候在营火和壁炉前听到的故事的效果——那些吸引我们的鬼故事。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.
在写文学小说时,你是在帮助自己。读者阅读文学小说不仅仅是为了娱乐,而是因为他们觉得会有别的事情发生;这种经历会让他们超越自我,向他们展示一些他们从未见过的东西。
I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.
我是个演员……或者,至少,我想成为一名演员。
I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.
我不会这样做,我只是想取悦市场或其他东西。不是因为我反对那样做,而是因为它从来不是我审美的一部分,即使当我和小精灵在一起的时候。
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
见鬼,这里没有规则——我们正在努力完成一些事情。
What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?
我想让你明白的;就是请你们自己和你们所爱的人;因为这就是我们所听到的,这就是我们所拥有的,这就是我们所能带走的。你明白我的意思吗?