A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
世界
World
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
献祭的律法在全世界是统一的。要想取得成效,就必须牺牲最勇敢和最纯洁的人。
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
艺术家的世界是无限的。它可以在任何地方找到,远离他住的地方或几英尺远。它总是在他的门阶上。
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
锻炼是为了刺激,而不是消灭。世界不是一天形成的,我们也不是。设定小目标,并以此为基础。
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
世界上最强烈谴责的恶习中,有一半都含有善的种子,需要适度使用,而不是完全戒除。
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
在这个世界上,我们最大和最高尚的快乐是发现新的真理,其次是摆脱旧的偏见。
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
人活着总免不了挨打,挨打;无论如何,他都得在这个世界上挤来挤去,得罪人受辱。
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
元老院是世界上最后一个原始社会。我们仍然崇拜部落的长老,尊重领土的需要。
So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.
所以当人们想听你唱歌时,这是世界上最大的赞美。这意味着他们感觉很好,所以我一直这样做。
I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
我认为自己是一个非常幸运的人——我的工作也是我在这个世界上最喜欢的,我可以让我的生活这样做。
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
世界各地歌剧院的数量和高出席率表明,歌剧这种艺术形式比以往任何时候都更受欢迎。
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
如果人们敢于毫无保留地彼此交谈,一百年后的世界将会少很多悲伤。
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
恰当地说,人是基于希望的,除了希望,他别无所有;他的这个世界充满了希望。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
我知道这个世界被无限的智慧所统治。我们周围的一切——所有存在的一切——都证明了它背后有无限的规律。不可否认的事实。它的精确性是数学上的。
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。
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。
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
下定决心,果断行动,承担后果。在这个世界上犹豫不决是做不到任何好事的。
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
为了了解这个世界,人有时不得不离开它。