A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
单词
Words
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
To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough.
要追一个不想和你说话的运动员，当你终于追上他，给你三个字，你必须根据他给你的三个字的信息写一个故事，这是相当困难的。
I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
我总是看着书，想知道怎么会有人想出这么多单词。但我的离婚以及后来爱上了别人，让我拥有了除写歌以外的其他写作能力。
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
我要向黑暗中投入言语，等待回音，如果回音响起，无论多么微弱，我都要发出其他的言语去诉说，去行军，去战斗，去创造一种对生活的渴望，这种渴望吞噬着我们所有人。
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
我们生活在一个不可能和无法解决的词汇不再是科学界词汇的一部分的时代。我们每天都在向试验迈进，这些试验不仅能将疾病和伤害的症状最小化，还能消除它们。
Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.
孩子们喜欢笑，当他们发现有趣的事情时很少感到无聊。他们也经常向成年人提问，因为他们明白，对于一个有趣的故事或笑话，他们能理解的词汇越多，他们就会越喜欢。
When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.
当我听我最喜欢的作曲家，他们有如此简单的旋律和和弦。我偶尔会在正确的时间停下来，但我经常会继续，直到我有太多的笔记和单词。但我就是这么做的。
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。
In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.
换句话说，不像一些有新理论的人，我们会出去，我们会去学校，我们会得到产品，产品会被评估，不管是老师还是其他人。分数是量化的，然后我们比较性能。
Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.
在逆境中，在压迫下，语言开始失败，简单的语言开始失败。为了准确地表达事物，人类几乎被迫去寻找尽可能精确的词语，这是文学的先决条件。
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."
我在什么地方见过一位慈善人士的墓志铭，这使我非常高兴。我记不得这句话了，但它的意思是:“我花了我失去了;我所拥有的留给别人;我所送出的东西还留在我身边。”
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
我一直认为音乐是赋予文字飞翔和翅膀的东西，而音乐往往是第一位的，尽管有时我会有一个概念，一个标题的想法，一个我想写的抒情的想法，而歌词会是第一位的。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
I was comfortable with the words, ... Most times I find myself trying to rewrite parts of my character, but not this time.
我对这句话很满意……大多数时候，我发现自己都在试图重写自己性格的某些部分，但这次不是这样。
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
善意的话语可以很短，很容易说出来，但是它们的回音却是无穷无尽的。
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
人们可能听到你的话，但他们能感觉到你的态度。
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
虚假的话不仅本身是邪恶的，而且会使灵魂受到邪恶的感染。
Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing. Some people are not even worth your words.
有时候，什么也不说是最好的。有些人甚至不值得你说。