A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
为什么
Why
No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.
“不让一个孩子掉队”四年级的成绩不是学习成绩，而是测试成绩。这就是它们不能持久的原因。法律分散了人们对真正重要的事情的注意力。
I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that's why I wear black, some people wear red - we are entitled to our opinions.
我爱不怕死的。我觉得很有趣。好吧?有一些关键的问题，这就是为什么我穿黑色，有些人穿红色——我们有权发表自己的意见。
To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.
要组建一个喜剧团队，需要很多课外活动、很多妥协、很多直觉去了解对方在做什么。这就是为什么这么难做。
I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
我想成为一名萨克斯手。我不知道为什么，但我听音乐的时候假装自己是萨克斯手。我学萨克斯的机会和学飞行的机会一样多。
I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.
我对背景故事感到害怕。因为它从来没有很好地解释或进入一些心理的东西从来没有很正确，从来没有很真实，谁知道为什么有人是某种方式。
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
因为，如果一个人有什么值得称赞的地方，满足于此是愚蠢的虚荣心;如果这是滥用——为什么一个人总能从一个该死的好心肠的朋友那里听到这些呢?
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。
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。
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 think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
我认为，如果人们被教导什么，那应该是关于残忍的本质。以及为什么人们对彼此如此残忍。以及他们从中获得的满足感。为什么总有代价，总要付出代价。
Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.
也许只是，我总是去人迹罕至的地方，在任何话题上，无论是历史，我总是喜欢选择最模糊的话题。我不知道我为什么会有这种冲动。我真的无法解释，但我从很小的时候就开始这么做了。
To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.
对我来说，受欢迎意味着我有了更多的朋友。如果你想接近你的朋友，你必须注意他们是谁，但我有很多熟人。然后，你必须非常小心你的朋友是谁，因为你永远不知道他们为什么是你的朋友。
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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。
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?
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。
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。
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?
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?