A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
单词
Words
If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
如果“融合”这个词有什么意义的话,那么它的意义就是:我们将用爱迫使我们的兄弟们认清自己的本来面目,停止逃避现实,开始改变现实。
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
我喜欢比较不同的时间段。诗歌能唤起主题的时间。通过非常仔细的用词选择,你可以唤起一个时代,完全把诗扔进一个不同的时间尺度。
Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.
是的,你知道,我不能再用那些好听的词了,因为我过去常常用它们来逃避。我以前叫自己大胖子,叫自己胖乎乎的。我过去常说自己超重。
Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
因此,一个人找不到地方走过地球的宽度不是因为地球不平静,而是因为危险的旅行者的每一步通常在于文字。
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
你当听灵明的言语,留心听他的劝戒,存记在心里。她的格言是普遍的,所有的美德都依赖于她;她是人类生活的向导和女主人。
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.
首先,有一个词的火山,一个莎士比亚从未用过的词的火山,一个从未在英语中使用过的词的火山。这是惊人的。这是他说出来的。
Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.
许多话并不想表明,每一法院的特定观点造成了影响公共安宁的危险;但是全部都记在我的账上了。这还不够。
Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
感情和语言一样有很多话要说。你可以有世界上最伟大的话语,如果它们不可信,它们不会引起共鸣,它们说得不令人信服,这不是一首伟大的歌曲。
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
宁可默默无声,也不要说比沉默更有价值的话。宁可拿一颗珍珠去冒险,也不要说一句闲言碎语;多言少语,总要在寥寥几句话里说得很多。
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
现在有一些新词可以作为大家的借口。给我过去那些英雄和恶棍的美好时光,那些你可以为之喝彩或嘘声的人。对他们来说,有一个真理是今天所有圆滑的轻信都无法触及的。
The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
这个决定来自出版商。当然,芝加哥已经批准了。然后他们提出了一些好听的话关于与读者的关系和他们的义务。这和那无关。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
不要在主题上使用太大的词。当你的意思是“非常”时,不要说“无穷大”;否则,当你想谈论一些真正无限的东西时,你就会无话可说。
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
我喜欢文字。文字是地方、房间、遥远的空气、稀薄的热带。它们让我们感觉和想象我们不仅仅是我们的身体。
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
语言,像自然一样,一半显露,一半隐藏着内在的灵魂。
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
巨大的危险也有这种美,它能使陌生人之间的友爱公开化。
The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
最古老、最简短的词——“是”和“不是”——是那些最需要思考的词。
Use soft words and hard arguments.
使用软语言和硬论点。