A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
理解
Understood
It will be of little avail to the people if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
如果法律过于繁冗，无法阅读，或者过于杂乱无章，无法理解，那对人民就没有什么帮助。
After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.
在我开始理解生活的精神层面之后，我明白了作为丈夫、父亲、朋友和曲棍球运动员，你所肩负的责任。
As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
当人们意识到我们可以用自己的方式处理事情时，我生命中最激动的事情就是和人们一起走到舞台上，把乐队围起来。
I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.
我试着敲开许多门，但维珍是唯一相信我所做的品牌。最终，我得到了一个能够理解我想做什么的标签。
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
一场输了或赢了的战争很容易描述、理解和欣赏，但一个伟大国家的道德成长需要反思和观察，才能欣赏它。
Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.
任何“艺术家”都是靠表达别人无法表达的东西来谋生的——因为他们不知道自己的感受，他们太害怕表达这些感受，或者他们缺乏沟通和被理解的技能。
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
我看着自己，我看到一个西班牙人试图被说英语的观众所理解，并投入了大量的精力，而不是自由地表达自己，感到舒服。
It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
人们总是明白，植物和动物虽然在它们的高级代表中是完全对立的，但在它们的低级和较简单的形式中却非常接近对方。但他们被认为不会融合。
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。
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
当我站在那里的时候，我看到的比我能说的更多，我理解的比我看到的更多;因为我以一种神圣的方式看到了精神中所有事物的形状，以及所有形状的形状，因为它们必须像一个整体一样生活在一起。
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
我认为需要理解的一点是我们都是不同的。我从来不喜欢表演理论。我没有上过戏剧学校，所以我从来没有接受过那种被人说“这就是你应该表演的方式”所限制的训练。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
I cannot be understood in three minutes.
我不能在三分钟内被理解。
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
我一向讨厌机器，而我唯一能理解的机器就是独轮手推车，这一点我不太了解。
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。
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。