A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
木
Wood
I love beautiful wood.
我喜欢漂亮的木头。
Rotten wood cannot be carved.
朽木不能雕。
Fields have eyes and woods have ears.
田野有眼,森林有耳。
Mallet strikes chisel; chisel splits wood.
锤击凿;木头凿分裂。
Do not halloo until you are out of the wood.
在你走出树林之前不要欢呼。
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
自己砍柴,会暖和两倍。
Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.
已经被火点燃的木头不难点燃。
He who stands near the woodcutter is likely to be hit by a splinter.
站在伐木工人旁边的人很可能被木片击中。
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
人们喜欢砍柴。在这个活动中,我们可以立即看到结果。
"Peter, I am taking a ride," said the goose, when the fox was running into the wood with her.
“彼得,我要去骑马。”当狐狸和母鹅一起跑进树林时,母鹅说。
"It is not for my own sake," said the fox, "that I say there is a good goose-green in the wood."
狐狸说:“我说树林里有一棵很好的鹅绿色的树,这不是为我自己的缘故。”
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
未读的故事不是故事;木浆上有小黑点。读者,读它,使它活:一个活的东西,一个故事。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
老鼠不再啃木头了,地牢的墙壁也缩回去了,你的脉搏也稳定下来了,太阳也找到了你的心脏,天气不错,季节也不错,继续下去是有意义的,甚至是有希望的。
We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.
我们都知道,任何以任何方式阻碍树液自由循环的东西,也在一定程度上阻止了木头和树叶的形成。
I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.
我不喜欢能被复制的东西。木材本身并不重要,重要的是用它制作的物品是独特的、简单的、朴实无华的。
I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team.
我认为我们在南非有足够的实力,但这并不意味着他们不是一支好球队。他们威吓了很多球队,但我们威吓了他们。没有对南非的不尊重;他们是一个非常好的团队。