A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
假期
Vacation
Laughter is an instant vacation.
笑是一个瞬间的假期。
I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
我讨厌假期。没什么可做的。
Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.
那一打就像度假一样。
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
我们需要的不是更多的假期,而是更多的假期。
On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.
在度假时,我完全不上网。我没有带笔记本电脑。
I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.
我每四个月放一次为期一周的假来调整自己的步调。
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
没有人比刚度过假期的人更需要假期了。
I love being on vacation and never knowing what day of the week it is.
我喜欢度假,从来不知道今天是星期几。
Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
太多的工作,太多的假期,任何一件事太多都是不健康的。
We take five, one-week vacations a year, and those dates are set in stone.
我们每年有五次为期一周的假期,这些日子是固定不变的。
The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
蚂蚁很聪明,但他知道的还不够去度假。
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
当你不能再享受你已经享受过的东西时,你就去度假。
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We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.
我们在夏天会去上小学,喜欢游泳或者摆摊卖柠檬水。我试着教我的孩子们自己找乐子。
There are certain problems, which we admit to ourselves only when we are in generally easy and pleasant circumstances, so that these problems, being admitted, do not combine with other difficulties to overpower us. This is not the least consideration behind the advisability of vacations.
有些问题,我们只有在一般轻松愉快的情况下才会向自己承认,这样,这些问题一旦被承认,就不会与其他困难结合起来压倒我们。这并不是度假明智与否背后最不重要的考虑因素。
I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.
我有开明的朋友。他们被误导了,他们错了。我不同意他们的观点。我不想让他们投票。我想让他们十一月去度假。
My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.
我女儿是大学一年级学生,我儿子——嗯,我们的女儿和儿子——是大学二年级学生。所以他们选择周末回家,假期回家,夏天回家,尽管他们有工作。
Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.
喜剧演员从来没有真正在度假,因为你总是注意力集中……天线总是在外面。
I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.
我度假不开心。在我很少有三个小时不用工作的时候,我感到非常不舒服。