A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
年轻
Young
Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
女权主义者把我烦死了。我听从自己的直觉，如果这对年轻女孩有任何帮助，那就太好了。但我宁愿他们把这更多地看作是跟随自己直觉的一课，而不是模仿别人。
In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
所有大城市的生活方式都是一样的。同样一望无际的餐厅;同样的大型博物馆，通常的嫌疑人;同样的匿名，当你年轻的时候，这可能是令人兴奋的，但我发现它变得令人厌倦。
Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.
嗯，当我年轻的时候，当我非常年轻的时候，当我还是个小男孩的时候，我不记得我听过的音乐，但是我阿姨在布鲁克林日报上写了一篇关于我如何选择留声机唱片的文章。
If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the 'Youth Spring' that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.
如果你不仅关注阿拉伯之春，而且关注我所说的始于欧洲的“青年之春”，年轻人开始找到自己的声音，他们不再指望传统媒体来反映这一点。
It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.
杰里米，看着我留了很多头发的照片真是太迷人了，我看起来很年轻。我们都说过，二三十年前，的确，从那时起整个世界都变了。
On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia.
在非官方的层面上，这是我们国家生活中一个光辉的时刻，因为年轻人决定必须停止这种行为，他们再也不能忍受在东南亚这场悲剧冒险中流血。
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。
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.
我建议我的年轻同事，交响乐作曲家，有时也去幼儿园看看。就是在那里决定了二十年后是否会有人理解他们的作品。
I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.
我确实喜欢和年轻的导演一起工作，因为这是一项非常困难的工作，我认为，在导演们出现一段时间之后，有时，不总是这样，但有时他们的激情会因为受伤而被吸走。
Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.
年轻人不想成为任何人的第二。每个人都想一夜成名。看看我要等多少年，我要走多少条路，我要唱多少首歌。现在我才刚刚开始，永远不会结束。
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
现在人们的视觉想象力更加复杂，更加发达，尤其是在年轻人当中，现在你可以做出一个图像，它只是稍微暗示了一些东西，他们可以做他们想做的。
I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
我是一个音乐家。我年轻的时候不知道会这样。我知道我总是在脑海中听到一些我在其他地方听不到的音乐，我“需要”这种音乐。服从自然法则，我创造了这个真空。
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
现代战争的悲剧在于，这些年轻人死于互相厮杀，而不是他们在首都的真正敌人。
When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.
当你年轻的时候加入一个非常大的乐队，你会有点迷失自我。你只是乐队的一员。我只是需要远离它。
Tonight, we are young. So let's set the world on fire, we can burn brighter than the sun.
今晚，我们很年轻。所以让我们点燃世界，我们可以燃烧得比太阳还亮。
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
只有经过多年的准备，年轻的艺术家才应该触摸色彩——不是用来描述色彩的，而是作为一种个人表达的手段。
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
我在街上遇见一个非常贫穷的年轻人，他正在谈恋爱。他的帽子是旧的，他的外套是旧的，他的披风的肘部已经露出来了，水从他的鞋子里流过，星星也从他的灵魂里流过。
The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.
奥林匹克运动的精神对年轻人来说是伟大的，因为它教会了他们参加比赛所需要的训练和纪律。即使他们没有入选球队，他们也可以把自己的生命重新奉献给体育艺术、纪律和身体健康。