A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
有用
Useful
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
怀旧不再是过去的样子。
I like being mistaken for someone useful.
我喜欢被误认为是有用的人。
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
有害的真相胜于有用的谎言。
I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.
我给了他一个有用的罐子来装东西。
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
技术是有用的仆人,但也是危险的主人。
My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.
我的问题是如何找到最有用的方法。
I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
我不认为有人对评论提出异议是有用的。
Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.
有时候当你开得很快的时候,你的直觉会很有用。
I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.
我知道我为社会做了一些有益的事情,我感到很满足。
You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
你在踢屁股比赛中就像一个独腿人一样有用。
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
书对愚蠢的人有用,就像镜子对盲人有用一样。
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
我们必须与过去打交道,只有这样我们才能使它对现在和未来有用。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.
现在,戏剧在帮助我们理解我们的处境时非常有用,相反,我们可能会理解为什么我们的剧院正在被摧毁。
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
我们被教导要以比我们更卑贱和可鄙的程度来看待我们自己种族的一部分,为了伟大和有用的目的,我们失去了大自然之手植入我们心中的人的尊严的观念。
The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
对于任何类型的小说,这个建议都是一样的。继续写信,继续寄东西,不是寄给朋友和亲戚,而是寄给那些有能力买东西的人。可以添加许多额外的、有用的技巧,但这是基本的。
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
人们以三种方式来评价事物:有用的、令人愉快的或快乐的来源、优秀的、或本质上令人钦佩的或光荣的。
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
对我来说,小说是我发现自己脑袋里在想什么的方式。所以当你和我做同样多的其他事情时,这是一件非常有用和关键的事情。
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
为了得到好的东西,误入歧途,从而获得经验是非常有用的。