A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
声音
Voice
I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.
我是一个黑人歌手，有一个白人的声音，一个完美的流行音乐的声音。
Don't listen to the voices in your head, listen to your heart.
不要听你脑子里的声音，要听你的心声。
You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.
你不能对自己的声音很差，却期望它一直存在。
But these days, it's hard to make it just on a beautiful voice.
但是现在，仅仅靠一个美妙的声音是很难做到的。
Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.
没有亚瑟的声音，我永远也不会享受那样的成功。
There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
在舞曲中，你只能用男性的声音做这么多。
My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.
我的歌总是关于语调而不是歌词。
His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
祂的声音不是带领我们进入胆怯的门徒，而是带领我们进入勇敢的见证。
I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
我想唱得好，但是我的嗓子是世界上最差的。
The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.
为了传达情感，声音必须在任何时候都非常清晰。
I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
我不知道有多少歌手真正喜欢自己的声音。
Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?'
有时候当我听到自己的声音出现在磁带上时，我就会想，‘那个可怕的人是谁?’
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I love the LORD, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.
我爱耶和华，因他听了我的声音。他听到我求饶的呼声。因为他向我侧耳而听，我要一生求告他。
I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
我知道如何对待自己的声音，让它听起来尽可能好——这仍然不是那么好。
Give but don't allow yourself to be used. Love but don't allow your heart to be abused. Trust but don't be naive. Listen to others but don't lose your own voice.
给予，但不要让自己被利用。爱，但不要让你的心被滥用。信任，但不要天真。倾听他人，但不要失去自己的声音。
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
经验，已经被压缩成一组印象，围绕着我们每一个人的是一堵厚厚的人格之墙，没有任何真正的声音穿过这堵墙来到我们身边，或者从我们身边传到我们只能猜测没有的地方。
Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
百分之九十九是在运送过程中。如果你有正确的声音和正确的表达方式，你足够骄傲，你能说出最重要的一句话，你能说任何话，让人们大笑三次，直到他们意识到你不是在开玩笑。
Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?
是我的声音变好了，还是我已经习惯了自己的声音?