A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
面包
Bread
We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.
我们一直在吃东西,却不知道面包之类的东西里都有什么。
Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.
还要看看你一周要花多少四分之一的玉米在可有可无的面包上,多少钱在施舍上。
My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
我最喜欢的诗人可能不是你的生计来源。我最喜欢的诗比最喜欢的诗人还多。
The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.
医护人员打电话给媒体,把我像卖面包一样卖了出去。这是个新闻,他想成为报道它的人。
Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.
我在你们那里所听见的,比这更美。我与你们所擘开的,比这更美。我既没有你,一切都是荒凉的。曾经那么美丽的一切都已不复存在。
You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
你们不建造自己的房子,不做自己的衣服,也不烤自己的面包,仅仅因为你们知道,如果你们尝试所有这些事情,他们或多或少都会做不好。
I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
我学东西不是因为我必须学,而是因为我真的想学。这和我对执行的看法是一样的。我表演是因为我真的想表演,而不是因为我必须把面包带回家。
I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.
我会画长条帆布,然后把它们扔在沙滩上,或者把面包做成几何图案放在市中心的鸽子面前。我想让人们找到一些美好而有趣的东西来思考。然后我会回去看看那些东西是否还在那里,或者是否有人会注意到。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
人是一种不单单依靠食物生存的生物,主要依靠口头禅生存。
We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin.
我们充满了面包和汽油,外面变胖,里面变瘦。
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
如果他们能用发霉的面包做盘尼西林,他们肯定能从你身上做点什么。
Art and knowledge bring bread and honour.
艺术和知识带来面包和荣誉。
A man who wants bread is ready for anything.
想要面包的人什么都可以吃。
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
天空是眼睛每日的食粮。