A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
世界
World
I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.
我相信世界是我们选择去看的。就这么简单。我们的幸福最终取决于我们自己,而不是别人。
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
当今世界变化如此之快,以至于那些说自己做不到的人通常会被正在做这件事的人打断。
I think you're foolish if you spend your life in one place. The world is gigantic, It's a waste if you don't try and see it.
我认为你在一个地方度过一生是愚蠢的。世界是巨大的,如果你不试着去看它,那就是浪费。
The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.
世界就像一块有洞的木板,方的人钻到圆的洞里,圆的人钻到方的洞里。
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
科学在现代世界有许多用途;然而,它的主要用途是提供长篇大论来掩盖富人的错误。
I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
我能听到你们的声音,全世界都能听到你们的声音,推倒这些建筑的人们很快就能听到我们所有人的声音。
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
这个世界对你这么好,难道你要带着遗憾离开吗?前方的路比我们身后的路更好走。
I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
我一直想要超越西方的机械世界观,看看当镜头改变时可能会出现什么。
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
在这个世界上,没有安静的角落,就不可能轻易地逃离历史、喧嚣、可怕的不安。
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
黄金是一种财富,拥有它的人在这个世界上做他想做的一切,并成功地帮助灵魂进入天堂。
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
黑客小说利用好奇心,但并没有真正满足好奇心,也没有把好奇心与世界上的任何东西联系起来。
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
没有什么比偷听更能告诉你,你脑外的世界和你脑内的世界是不同的。
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
我变成了死亡,世界的毁灭者。
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
一个舒适的晚年是一个度过美好青春的奖赏。它不会给我们带来衰败的凄凉前景,而会给我们带来在更美好的世界里永葆青春的希望。
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
人们的赞许就像阿基米德的杠杆,有了合适的支点,就能推动世界。
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
这个世界只是我们想象的一块画布。
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
如果一个男人能……做一个更好的捕鼠器,世界就会开辟一条通往自己家门口的路。
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
事实上,我认为艺术存在于两个方向——广阔的笔触,宏大的画面,但另一方面,对表面上平淡无奇的事物进行细致的审视。从一粒沙子看到整个世界,就是这样。