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有用
Useful
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
自传之所以有用，是因为你读到的和分析过的生活可能会给你一些启示，让你在自己的人生旅途中发现一些有用的东西。
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。
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
在我旅行的过程中，那种认为一切值得知道的事情都是在剑桥知道的想法逐渐消失了。在这方面，我的旅行对我非常有用。
I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.
我非常在意做一些对人们有用的东西，让他们拥有和倾听，但我不太在意，所以我不会做任何我想做的事。这只是其中之一。
When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
当你作为客人离开时，整理一下东西或者送主人一份有用的礼物是很好的。当你离开这个星球时，能做出积极的贡献是件好事。
Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful.
我看到的每一个地方都有母亲节的广告。大多数情况下，它们都符合刻板印象:鲜花、珠宝、香水。没有很多书。不是很多电脑。一些工具。小这是有用的。
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
我对私立学校没有意见。我和我的母亲都从大学毕业。私立学校是有用的，我们经常使用公共资金来支付他们的基础设施和其他共同需求。
I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.
我认为互联网是绝对非凡的。这是非常非常有用的，我认为我们要做的一件事是确保非洲大陆走上信息高速公路。
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
对历史学家和其他人来说，能够看到不同现象的最常见的形式是很有用的，无论是语音的、形态的还是其他的，以及语言如何生存、继续和随着时间的推移而变化。
While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.
尽管反驳指责并让你的论点广为流传是有用的，但你必须明白，只要人们的情绪倾向于反对你，论点和证据就不会对他们产生什么影响。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
怀旧不再是过去的样子。
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。
I like being mistaken for someone useful.
我喜欢被误认为是有用的人。
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。
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
语言知识非常有用。我有外语和文学的大学学位。
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。