A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
年轻
Young
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
当我年轻的时候,我发现我所做的十件事中有九件是失败的。我不想失败,所以我做了十倍的工作。
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
你的眼睛是泉源,在它平静平静的水中,可以看见天堂。它们的睫毛就像青草,滋润着溪水中幼小的身影。
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
除非我能写些东西,在几天之内取代年轻小姐们桌上最后一本流行小说,否则我是不会满意的。
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
我不认为诗歌是可以教的。我们可以鼓励年轻作家,但你不能教给他们的是诗歌的本质。
The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.
将充满热情的年轻科学家空降到一个有精选数据和成熟概念的花坛的危险应该被低估。
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
矫揉造作是一定的畸形;年轻人以荒诞的方式塑造自己,一开始是可笑的,最后往往是邪恶的。
Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
去剧院是一种非常愉快的经历。我爸爸会在我们很小的时候,比如六、七岁的时候,带我妹妹和我去看戏。
I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it.
我想每个年轻女孩在她人生的某个阶段都会想知道当公主是什么感觉。他们喜欢打扮的想法和它的乐趣。
All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.
我们这些年轻人都能扔。我小时候常常用石头打死松鼠,我爷爷有一次用石头在飞行中打死一只火鸡秃鹰。
Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
年轻作家只有在找到他们的题材时才会成功。因为几乎每个人都有一个家庭和关于家庭的故事,这通常是一个起点。
The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.
今天在我们国家年轻人很少领导什么。年轻一代将年长一代推向更高的标准已经有一段时间了。
When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.
当我年轻的时候,我吻了我的第一个女人,并在同一天抽了我的第一支烟。相信我,从那以后我再也没有在烟草上浪费时间了。
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During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
大约三星期前,在某某村的最高法院开庭期间,村里的主要街道上聚集了许多人。
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
我认为在我年轻的时候读莎士比亚的戏剧是非常重要的。他有能力让完全陌生的人活过来。
Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.
一般来说,社交网站在结交新朋友、开阔视野和了解世界方面非常有前途和益处,但当年轻人鲁莽或没有头脑时,它们也充满了危险。
All the discussions about flexi-time or dress-down Fridays or paternity leave only serve to mask the core issue, which is that certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged on a day-to-day basis with a young family.
所有关于弹性工作时间、周五便装日或陪产假的讨论,都只是在掩盖一个核心问题,即某些工作和职业选择从根本上来说与与一个年轻家庭有意义的日常生活不相容。
It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
对我来说,让年轻人接触他们认为是禁区的东西是很重要的。我告诉他们,没有墙,只有我们建造的墙。“我给那些审视我人生的年轻人的建议不是追随我的足迹,而是走出去,创造属于自己的人生。”
Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them.
幼猪发出咕噜声,就像老猪在它们面前咕噜声一样。