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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Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.
现在我不认识这个行业里一半的年轻人。太分散了,太分散了。
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。
When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
当你年轻的时候,看着电视,你会想,这是一个阴谋。这些网络阴谋使我们变得迟钝。但是当你长大一点的时候,你会意识到这不是真的。网络的存在是为了给人们提供他们想要的东西。
As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.
作为一个年轻的孩子,我真的想要变得富有。
As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.
和往常一样,这条林荫大道上的面孔都是年轻的,每年都有无数的移民从每个国家、每个大陆来到这里,在他们漫长的人生旅途中,有一次在这里下车。
Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.
同样地,许多年轻人第一次听到恒星光的折射,就认为天文学的整个领域都受到了怀疑,而要使一切恢复正常,除了一种容易实现的、不重要的纠正外,什么也不需要。