A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
去了
Went
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
如果把所有的经济学家首尾相连,他们永远也不会得出结论。
You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.
你解释它是怎么发生的,并且尽你所能找出它是怎么发生的。
I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
当我看到我的沐浴玩具是一个烤面包机和一台收音机时,我知道我是一个被遗弃的婴儿。
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
当你为别人工作时,要像为自己工作一样充满热情。
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
曾经有一段时间,一个傻瓜和他的钱很快就分开了,但现在这种事发生在每个人身上。
But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.
但我去了委内瑞拉,在丛林中度过了几周。看起来太棒了。
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
那些把我们的生活比作梦想的人是对的……我们醒着睡,醒着睡。
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
我宁愿娱乐并希望人们学到一些东西,而不是教育人们并希望他们得到娱乐。
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
有些人看待事物的方式,并问为什么……我梦想着从未有过的事情,问为什么不呢?
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
我回到贝尔法斯特,创办了一家名为“海事”的俱乐部。没有人想过要开一家布鲁斯俱乐部,所以我是第一个。
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
是别人的眼睛毁了我们。如果我是瞎子,我既不要漂亮的衣服、漂亮的房子,也不要漂亮的家具。
Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
要活得好像你已经活了第二次,又好像你第一次的行为是错误的,就像你现在要做的一样!
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
要不是有这些礼物,私奔是更好的选择。
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
所以在我不确定的时候,我去了研究生院,这一切都发生了。
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
可以说,我只不过是一个媒介。
I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.
我和明喻约会。我不知道我在暗喻什么。
I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
我回去工作了,因为有人要付杂货费。
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
如果没有希望,我的心会碎的。