A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
男孩
Boy
If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.
如果你要和一群男孩子打架,最好找个最大的。这样你就不用和他们战斗了。别人会明白你是认真的,你会赢得他们的尊重。
For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.
不知什么原因,在上周那个阳光明媚的下午,我真的看到了路过的煤炭,这让我想起了我小时候煤炭对我们日常生活的重要性。
An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.
伦敦的一个勤杂工是最低等的。勤杂工就是茶水工。他会是狗的身体:意思是什么都愿意做的人。我对此早有准备,也很享受。
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
每个真正的男孩都是叛逆者和统治者。如果让他按照自己的本能、自己的爱好去发展,社会就会发生根本性的变化,使成年的革命者畏缩不前。
Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.
有些聪明的男孩说我的音乐很大声,明目张胆,这些都应该看看那些在雪地里开了一百英里去看乐队的孩子们的脸……站在乐队台前忘乎所以的全是自己。
A boy is content to be made into a civil man by caning, or any one of a number of other stratagems, but a girl, being disqualified by Nature, as it were, from such physical brutality, must remain forever something of a terra incognita. Don't you think?
一个男孩满足于通过鞭刑或其他许多计谋中的任何一种使自己成为一个文质彬彬的人,而一个女孩,由于天生就被剥夺了这种身体上的暴行的资格,必须永远保持某种未知领域的东西。你不觉得吗?
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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
为了确认我的身份,我没有像大多数路德教男孩那样,得到一块手表和我的第一条长裤。我有一个望远镜。我妈妈认为这是最好的礼物。
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
一个男孩可以从狗身上学到很多东西:服从、忠诚,以及在躺下之前转三圈的重要性。
I've never been a bad boy.
我从来不是个坏孩子。
I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
我喜欢“被误解”这个词。“但我有点像个坏孩子。
Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.
我夸大了吗?天啊,我知道,如果我能逃过一劫,我会做得更多。
The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
麦卡锡家的小伙子们在适当的时候下令向前进的敌人开火。