A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
水
Water
Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.
提防不吠的狗和静止的水。
Not everything is a mermaid that dives into the water.
并不是所有潜入水中的东西都是美人鱼。
The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.
沿着寂静之路逝去的淡水。
I just led them to the water and they drank copiously.
我只是把他们领到水边,他们喝得很多。
To piss across water is to piss across your reflection.
尿过水就是尿过你的倒影。
I drink a lot of water and always try to stay hydrated.
我喝很多水,总是尽量保持水分。
You can't cross the sea merely by staring at the water.
你不能仅仅靠盯着水过河。
Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?
水是免费的。那么为什么人们要喝依云呢?
You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.
你不能把新奥尔良市的水投出去。
I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add.
我得到了这些粉末状的水——现在我不知道该加什么了。
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
成千上万的人生活在没有爱的世界里,没有一个人没有水。
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
我的假植物死了,因为我没有假装给它们浇水。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
保护空气和水的计划,荒野和野生动物实际上是保护人类的计划。
I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.
我想与其把自己埋在土里,不如把自己埋在水里,这样大家都能看到你在那里。
People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?
人们责怪我是因为这些水管坏了,但是我问你,如果水管没有坏,我有责任修理它们吗?
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.
在新奥尔良上空大约十五英里的地方,河水流得很慢。它在那里变得越来越宽,几乎变成了一个海,海水被半个大陆的泥土染成了黄色。阳光照射的地方是金色的。
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
天下莫柔弱于水,而攻坚强者莫之能胜,以其无以易之。
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
因此一艘据说是紧张,当她的木板太紧凑,固体,防止水的入口,她浸:和一个桶叫做紧,当液体的法杖是如此之近,没有包含在其中可以通过或它们之间的问题。