A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
世界
World
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
世界上有一半人不知道另一半人如何生活。
Our real home is not in this world and never has been.
我们真正的家不在这个世界上,也从来没有去过。
The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic.
世界其他国家想要我们的钱;我们喜欢塑料。
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
因为名人以整个地球作为他们的纪念。
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
来吧,跟我来,让世界听它的吧。
Love is all that counts in this crazy, mixed-up world.
在这个疯狂而混乱的世界里,爱才是最重要的。
But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
但在这个世界上,除了死亡和税收,没有什么是确定的。
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
我们有能力重新开始世界。
We have become the charnel house of the Western World.
我们已经成为西方世界的避难所。
I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
我想做世界上能做的一切。
I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
我在教堂学到的东西比我在世上学到的还要多。
One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
一个人不能点燃一个已经失去的世界。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
有一天,在掌握了风、浪、潮汐和重力之后,我们将为上帝驾驭爱的能量,然后,人类将在世界历史上第二次发现火。
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
世界是一本书,不旅行的人只读其中的一页。
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
大自然的一触,使整个世界变得亲切。
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
你是受过教育的。你的证书就是你的学位。你可以把它看作通往美好生活的门票。让我请你想出一个替代方案。把它看作是你改变世界的门票。
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
那些决定把休闲作为心智发展手段的人,那些喜欢好音乐、好书、好画、好剧本、好伙伴、好对话的人——他们是什么?他们是世界上最幸福的人。
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
当这个世界被创造出来的时候,它是以这样一种方式被创造出来的:上帝爱的智慧的那些永恒的对象变成了现实——相互作用,在有限的领域里与上帝有关。