A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
世界
World
I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
我已经环游世界一百次了，却开始忘记我到过哪里。我知道我去过那儿:旅游地图上说过。我记得这个城市的名字，但我不记得它是什么样子的——一片模糊。
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
世界上公认的立法者视世界为理所当然。他们不喜欢神秘，因为神秘不能被编码，也不能被立法，奇迹也不能成为法律。所以这些立法者管理着被接受的事物的边界。
So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
那么，如何在不找到新工作的情况下留在娱乐圈呢?我觉得唯一合乎逻辑的答案是成为一名小说家。因此，我写了第一本书——受到一些非常真实的绝望情绪的驱使——并取得了成功。
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.
创造一个世界，在这个世界里这些事物存在或不存在，或者它们以某种方式被扩展。用现实来检验这个虚构。读者会认出你所谈论的世界，即使它可能完全是另一个世界。
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
权力的行使是由权力者和无权者的世界之间的数千种相互作用所决定的，这是因为这两个世界从来没有被一条泾渭分明的界线所分割:在这两个世界里，每个人都有一小部分自我。
I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.
我喜欢旅行，很高兴来到世界上最发达的国家，然后来到世界上两个最原始的自然地区:加拉帕戈斯群岛和厄瓜多尔亚马逊丛林。对比令人难以置信。
We do not want the racial antipathies or national antagonisms of the Old World transformed to this continent - as they will, should we become a part of European politics. The people of this country are overwhelmingly for a policy of neutrality.
我们不希望旧世界的种族仇恨或民族对立转变为这一大陆- -如果我们成为欧洲政治的一部分，他们将会这样做。这个国家的人民绝大多数支持中立政策。
Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God.
的确，环顾一下这个破碎的世界，我们就会痛苦地发现，我们不需要为上帝进行更多的辩论;我们需要更多的人生活在无条件的爱的契约中，这是我们对上帝最好的定义。
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
常识是世界上分布得最均匀的东西，因为每个人都认为自己很有天赋，即使是那些在其他事情上最难满足的人，也没有比他们已经拥有的东西更渴望得到常识的习惯。
We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do.
我们有世界上最好的漂流车手，最好的拉力赛车手等等。很明显，有很多我没有做过的事情，但也有很多我们从未见过的演员做过的不可思议的事情。
The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.
我们的目标是再拍一次，因为摄像师笑的时候有点发抖。如果没有这样的事情发生，我就不会快乐，因为对我来说，没有什么比一个每个人都想逗对方笑的世界更好的了。
You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.
你知道，现在是一个不同的世界，但跳过这一步，真正回答你的问题，只是在过去的五年里，我找到了我所谓的神圣的成熟，找到了平衡，找到了我生命中正确的人，这样我才能过上正常的生活。
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The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
棋盘宛如世界，一个个棋子仿佛世间的种种现象，游戏规则就是我们所称的自然法则。另一边的球员对我们隐藏起来了。
As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
当我们成为上帝之光更纯净的管道时，我们就会对这个世界上可能存在的甜蜜产生食欲。一个创造奇迹的人不是为了与现实世界作斗争，而是为了创造一个可能存在的世界。
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
在这个日夜竭尽全力把你变成别人的世界上，除了你自己，谁也不是，这意味着要打一场任何人都能打的最艰苦的战斗;永远不要停止战斗。
Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
老实说，很多人认为我是世界上销售数百万张唱片的冠军，这是每个人都想要的生活，但我从来没有享受过我的任何成功。
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
我们应该为年老做好准备，这样，这个世界就不会迫切需要从对下一个世界的冥想中吸收老年。看到老态龙钟的瘦削的手在坟墓上做棺材是可怕的。
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
要改善世界，首先要靠自己的心、头脑和双手。