A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
为什么
Why
I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am.
我真的不知道为什么我没有比现在瘦。
Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.
说话总是积极的。这就是为什么我说得太多。
I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.
我只是好奇事情是怎么运作的,为什么会这样。
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
你可以容忍自己的缺点,为什么不能容忍你妻子的缺点呢?
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
梦想一次只有一个主人。这就是为什么梦想家是孤独的。
Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?
最终我们可能还会问,为什么人类不能设计一个完美的社会?
I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
我不锻炼,但总的来说我很健康,这就是我不锻炼的原因。
It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?
知道有人可能在监视我,真令人毛骨悚然。他们为什么需要这些?
My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
我的天啊,这些人不知道如何去爱——这就是为什么他们如此轻易地去爱。
I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.
我会把自己描述得非常清醒,这就是为什么我还活着。
I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.
我不知道为什么,但我很容易成为靶子。我不会做任何事来消除它。
Why are people so interested in other people's relationships? It's like stealing.
为什么人们对他人的关系如此感兴趣?这就像偷窃。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
小说是迄今为止人类表达的最高形式。为什么?因为它无法做到绝对。
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
我的下一本书——每一本书我都在写——在我的脑海中翩翩起舞,每一个情节都让我感到兴奋。如果没有,我为什么要写呢?
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
在我看来,艺术作品是物质世界中唯一具有内在秩序的对象,这就是为什么,虽然我不认为只有艺术才重要,但我相信艺术是为了艺术而艺术。
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
任何作家只有在知道自己在做什么以及为什么要做时,才会感到幸福和善良。
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
经济学家是专家,他明天就会知道为什么他昨天预测的事情今天没有发生。
Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.
你为什么不把它放在头条:“他只和多丽丝做了三次!”“纠正了很多人的错误。