A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
单词
Words
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
文学是一种艺术，它能发现普通人身上不平凡的东西，用平凡的语言表达不平凡的东西。
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
当你在处理没有文字的音乐时，标题比其他任何东西都更能体现身份。崇高的意义是什么?
Words are contact with other beings. I see a word that says something I've noticed, seen, felt, obserevd, and I capture it; "I need that word!"
语言是与其他生命的联系。我看到一个词，它说的是我注意到的、看到的、感觉到的、观察到的东西，我把它捕捉下来;“我需要那个词!”
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
文字不过是我们所要表达的内容的模糊的影子。它们是微小的听觉联系，把伟大的、听不见的情感和目的连接在一起。
Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
肖就像一列火车。一个人只是说话，坐在自己的位置上。但莎士比亚就像在海里洗澡——想去哪里就去哪里。
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
今天的语言就像孩子从海滩带回的贝壳和海藻绳，在一个小时内就失去了光泽。
Love in undefinable. You can't put to words what love is, it's too powerful, too magical. You can only feel love and love others. Now that, is true love
在不确定的爱。你无法用语言表达爱是什么，它太强大，太神奇了。你只能感受爱和爱别人。这就是真爱
When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.
当你在面试我的时候，你是在和一个模仿真实的我说话。我的话里没有什么魔力，只是我在说话。
Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.
只有当语言被用作一种工具，被那些有勇气和诚实去感知和感受它的人所使用时，语言才能达到灵魂的境界。
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
当你掌握了数字，你就不会再读数字了，就像你读书时读单词一样，你也不会再读意义了。
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.
作家可以在阁楼上写作，也可以在公共汽车上写作。或者用锋利的棍子插在湿水泥里。要表演，演员必须有语言。一个舞台。一个摄像头转向。
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
如果没有语言来客观化和分类我们的感觉，并将它们彼此联系起来，我们就无法形成一个关于世界上真实事物的传统。
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What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men
困难是什么?只有一个词，表示完成特定目标所需的力量;仅仅是关于必须使用的通知;对孩子和傻瓜来说，这是一个难题;只是对男人的一种刺激
Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.
言语可以把一个人撕成碎片，也可以把它们重新组合在一起。我希望你好好利用你的语言，因为只有那些你故意用来伤害别人的话，才会让你比那些没有说出口的话更后悔。
The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.
学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的，因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达，去触及，去表达我们内心的某种东西，去理解他人。
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
我已经知道我要写的音乐了。但这句话吗?我还没有决定。
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
我语言的极限就是我思想的极限。我所知道的就是我的语言。
A man without words is a man without thought.
没有言语的人是没有思想的人。