A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
理解
Understand
I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.
我想找个时间看看书。我以前从未读过一本书。那将是一次冒险。我知道他们有网页什么的。是啊,我有时候也得这么做。
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
莱布尼茨一生致力于教育人们认识到,真正的幸福是通过把自己的身份定位于造福人类和子孙后代。
God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?
上帝给了我们完全一样的手指、手臂、腿和脚,但在我们不同的国家,我们对它们的划分却略有不同,你明白吗?
I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.
我要你们让这里所有的士兵首领明白,我们支持和平,我们已经缔造了和平,以免被他们误认为敌人。
Cause and effect the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them.
因果最好的人往往是为了逃脱而死于自己的手,而那些被遗忘的人永远无法理解为什么有人想要逃离他们。
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
任何一个成年人,只要他认为自己像过去的父母和老师一样,可以变得内省,唤起自己的青春去理解他面前的青春,他就迷失了。
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
我终于明白了什么是真爱……爱意味着你关心别人的幸福多于你自己的幸福,不管你面临着多么痛苦的选择。
While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
虽然我明白所有的事情都有结束的时候,无论是电视广告还是一个人的生活或者世界本身,但这并没有让事情变得更容易处理。
The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.
日场的观众是不同的,因为他们大部分是孩子,大部分是孩子。所以他们对每件事的反应都不一样,但我知道他们对什么有反应。
I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.
我明白不喜欢自己的某些方面是什么感觉。有些时候,我对自己的外表感到很糟糕。我有那种感觉的种子。
We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.
我们很快就成了家喻户晓的名字,就在-什么?-三四个月。所以很难适应,有时候真的很难理解。
Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
任何一份报纸,从第一行到最后一行,都只不过是一张恐怖的网,我无法理解一只无辜的手怎么能摸到一份报纸而不因厌恶而颤抖。
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The people of Rome no longer could understand their fevers. They seemed to have something to do with bad air, they said: the mal'aria.
罗马人再也无法理解他们的发烧。他们说,这似乎和恶劣的空气有关:马尔艾瑞亚。
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
我一点也不明白恩典的奥秘——只知道它在我们所在的地方遇见我们,却不把我们留在它发现我们的地方。
One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.
我逐渐明白的一件事是,当我谈论皮卡德的时候,我发现我谈论的是我自己。
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
每个人都在讨论我的艺术,假装理解,好像理解是必要的,而实际上只是爱是必要的。
I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.
我明白不想对别人负责是什么意思,因为我知道这样做可能会带来痛苦,或者让我的生活与对别人负责无关。我认为这些都是正常的事情。
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.
最终,我相信,目前试图用人造计算机来理解大脑的尝试将被认为是巨大的浪费时间。人造计算机可以出色地执行一些与有意识的人相同的外部任务。