A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
为什么
Why
Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.
我为什么要退休?坐在家里看电视?不,谢谢。我宁愿出去玩。
I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.
我不明白为什么人们认为戏剧比喜剧更难演。
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。
My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.
我对乐队的爱依然存在。它没有改变，也许这就是为什么这些天如此痛苦的原因。
If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?
如果我告诉别人我知道我在做什么，没有人会相信我，所以为什么还要假装呢?
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。
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。
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。
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?
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
为什么社会只对儿童的教育负责，而不对所有年龄层的成年人的教育负责?
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?
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
作为回报，社会奖励那些给予它想要的东西的人。这就是为什么人们赚了多少钱是一个粗略的衡量他们给了社会多少它想要的。
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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。
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。
So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.
所以你不断提高这些税收，突然间，商界说，‘我们为什么在这里?我们可以去别的地方用他们的手机。这是直接影响商界的问题之一。
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 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。
So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.
所以我想说的是为什么我们不考虑在某个水平上改变薛定谔方程当质量变得太大以至于你可能不得不担心爱因斯坦的广义相对论。