A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
一文不值
Worthless
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
我们从帮忙中获得的快乐部分来自于它给我们的感觉，我们并非一无是处。这对我们来说是一个惊喜。
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
这个毫无价值的地球上的最后一个声音将是两个人试图发射一艘自制的宇宙飞船，而且已经在为他们下一步要去哪里而争吵了。
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.
只有通过接触和比较，才能清楚地、批判性地看到和理解各种文化元素的相对价值或价值的无价值。
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
我更喜欢成就而不是奋斗。我的理论必须被证明是事实，否则就会一文不值。我的努力必须很快取得成功，否则就会停止。
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
这个词一直是人类的主要玩具和工具，这并不是没有原因的:如果没有它所承载的意义和价值，人类所有的其他工具都将毫无价值。
If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
如果我们，公民，不支持我们的艺术家，那么我们就把我们的想象力牺牲在粗糙的现实的祭坛上，我们最终什么都不相信，拥有毫无价值的梦想。
I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
我讨厌整个种族。没有人相信他们说的话，你的职业诗人，我的意思是，没有比拜伦和他的朋友们更没有价值的了。
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
如果自负者软弱，他的利己主义就毫无价值。如果自我主义者是强大的、敏锐的、个性鲜明的，那么他的自我主义就是宝贵的，并且仍然是人类的财产。
When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.
不管怎么说，当没有涉及任何金钱时，没有人会在乎。但现在，这片被认为毫无价值的土地，却被人们看到了它真正的价值:一种难以置信的宝贵资产。
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
人类进化的决定性时刻是永恒的。这就是为什么那些宣称过去的一切都是毫无价值的革命精神运动是正确的，因为还没有发生任何事情。
Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.
金凯德的画毫无价值，那些喜欢他的蹩脚媒体是错误的。不过，我很想看博物馆举办金凯德作品的小型展览。我希望艺术界和更广泛的世界能公开讨论他。
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A fat man is worthless in the fields.
一个胖子在田里是一文不值的。
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
在这个世界上令人惊讶的事情之一是一个没有价值的人对自己的尊重。
We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
我们需要听到人们为自己的无价值找的借口。
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
只要你知道该听什么，就不会有毫无价值的谈话。问题是谈话的生命。
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
未经加工的钻石有时会被误认为是没有价值的鹅卵石。
You can not be afraid when you get to this level to teach. I don't care what level you're at, if you don't teach, you're worthless.
当你达到这样的教学水平时，你就不会害怕了。我不在乎你的水平，如果你不教书，你就一文不值。