A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
墙
Wall
Every wall is a door.
每面墙都是一扇门。
The weakest go to the wall.
弱者碰壁。
Whatever you do, don’t be another brick in the wall!
不管你做什么,都不要成为别人的挡箭牌。
Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit.
蜘蛛侠能爬墙,他有一套很酷的衣服。
You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.
你只被你自己建造的墙所限制。
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
图画破坏墙壁的次数比装饰墙壁的次数要多。
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
我们的房子越开明,它们的墙壁就越会渗出鬼魂。
I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
我总是有一堵墙。但我觉得这样做是为了保护自己的安全。
I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.
我的意思是,如果你想冒险做一件事,你就得全力以赴。
I hope that you see right through my walls. I hope that you catch me cause i'm already falling.
我希望你能看穿我的心。我希望你能抓住我,因为我已经开始堕落了。
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
理解现代艺术并不难。如果它挂在墙上,它就是一幅画,如果你能绕着它走,它就是一座雕塑。
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
许多人坚持在现代舞和芭蕾之间筑一道墙。我开始认为墙是非常不健康的东西。
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You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.
你知道,我想很多人都有一个错误的印象,认为国会监管华尔街。事实上并非如此。真正的事实是,国会是由华尔街监管的。
Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.
乡村音乐打破了表演者和观众之间的隔阂。这是有联系的,因为这么多的歌曲创作,都有一种脆弱,一种忏悔的特质。那些歌词让你陶醉。
The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
我最近看到的唯一一个好的政治运动是占领华尔街运动。他们没有领袖,这是天才之处。但不幸的是,最后总是一些嬉皮士吹笛子。
I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.
我从“占领华尔街”或“占领华尔街”这个名字本身就能看出“占领华尔街”运动的巨大力量。它之所以奏效,是因为它的名字包含了你需要知道的一切:策略和目标。这个名称也是模块化的。你可以在自己的城市创建自己的分支。
I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.
我从无到有。我来自项目和福利部门,最后成了一个没有参照系的百万富翁。我迟早会碰壁的。
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
一个人从听中学到的比从说中学到的多。风和那些继续贴近大自然生活的人们仍然有很多东西要告诉我们,而这些东西我们在大学的围墙里是听不到的。