A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
船
Vessel
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
我就是那艘船。征兵是上帝的。神是口渴的神。
When a large vessel has opened a way it is easy for a small one to follow.
当一艘大船开了一条路，小船很容易跟着走。
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
如果你把油和醋倒在同一个容器里，你会称他们为敌人而不是朋友。
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
愤怒是一种酸，它对储存愤怒的容器所造成的伤害要大于它对任何东西所造成的伤害。
We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.
我们做了许多玻璃器皿……有两腕尺长的管子。这些管子里装满了水银，打开的一端用手指合上，然后把管子倒在一个有水银的容器里。
For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
有一种啤酒，不掺水的时候味道很浓，但喝惯了的人都喜欢喝。他们看见大麦浮在其上，就拿著苇子，从盛酒的器皿里拿出来喝。
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
没有人适合判断一本书,直到他在一艘帆船绕过合恩角,直到他遇到两个或三个冰山,直到他已经迷失在沙漠的沙,直到他花了几年的死者。