A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.
但是,好消息是,我姐姐拒绝马上结婚,除非她结婚,否则我不能结婚,所以我有了离家去梦想的许可证。
It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
只有当你开始为自己的事业奋斗时,你才会真正下定决心去赢得胜利,并成为他人争取自由的真正盟友。
I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.
我个人认为,在我们的经济起飞之前,我们不应该增加税收或削减开支,无论是哪一个。我会付更多的钱,但这解决不了问题。
The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.
答案是,在布隆迪,拥有一份干净的健康证明具有非常特殊的意义:除非并且直到你支付了医院的治疗费用,否则你根本不能离开,你实际上是一个俘虏。
When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.
当我还是个孩子的时候,我们没有任何蓝调电台。在石头出现之前,我从来没有听到过狼叫、浑水或那些人的叫声,我自己承担了这个责任,想知道他们在掩护谁。
For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
因为,如果一个从未见过火的人用令人满意的论据证明火是燃烧的。他的听众永远不会满足,除非他把手伸进火里,通过实验来学习论证所教的东西,否则他也不会避开火。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.
你可以一直翻找直到找到一首你喜欢的歌,但是你不能预测它是否会流行。
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
没有人在乎你知道多少,直到他们知道你有多在乎。
I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
我打棒球一直打到高中一年级。那是我的主要运动。我打三垒。
Love is just a word until it is proven to you.
爱只是一个词,直到它被证明给你。
I won't know where I'm going until I get there.
直到我到达那里,我才知道我要去哪里。
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
除非你穿着别人的软鞋走一英里,否则你无法想象那种气味。