A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
理解
Understood
I cannot be understood in three minutes.
我不能在三分钟内被理解。
At least I had that, one guy understood me.
至少有一个人能理解我。
I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
我从来不理解没有书架的人。
I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.
我一直不明白为什么我们学校的金属脑袋讨厌朋克。
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
人生是一连串的教训，只有经历过才会懂得。
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
从某种意义上讲，合作这个词所理解的一切都是邪恶的。
I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.
我一直不明白婚姻对我个人的好处是什么。
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
但当我指挥时，我被附身了，一种我从未完全理解的附身。
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
如果量子力学还没有给你带来深刻的震撼，那么你还没有理解它。
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
我说的每一句话都不能被理解为肯定，而应该被理解为疑问。
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
不要为了别人能理解你而写作，要为了别人不会误解你而写作。
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
新闻报道必须被理解为商品的宣传，以及通过图片来报道事件。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
如果不了解地球上的植被，就不可能真正了解世界的任何一部分，因为这不仅决定了动物居民的性质，而且也决定了大多数人的职业。
I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
我可能太了解男人了。我意识到它们天生就是食肉动物，我对雄性动物有一定的接受度。
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
我知道如果我每六个月或每年写一本新书，如果我继续读好书，最终我会写出一些值得出版的东西。我知道我可能在四十多岁，五十多岁，甚至六十多岁，但我相信这将会发生。
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
烈士们，我的朋友，必须在被遗忘、被嘲笑和被利用之间做出选择。至于被理解——永远不会。
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
所有人都同意，这是普遍的误解。因为，如果不幸的是，人们彼此理解，他们永远不会同意。
I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
我结婚是因为我想做一些超出我理解的事情，因为我的感情超出了我的理解。