A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
零
Zero
Just for today: zero complaining+zero excusing+zero blaming+zero procrastinating.
就在今天:零抱怨+零借口+零责备+零拖延。
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
突然间,每周的收入从零增加到两百美元。剩下的不算。
Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.
去学语言。去上表演课吧。像其他人一样从零开始。
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
要求控制甚至接近零排放在经济上是不可能的。
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
任何人都不应该认为自己一无是处,认为自己对世界的现状无能为力。
There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.
到了某个时刻,你的银行账户上有多少个零就不重要了。
One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.
人们希望实现零选项,但在没有零选项的情况下,我们必须实现平衡的数字。
When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.
当我还是个孩子的时候,我从归零地到冥王星。我玩的第一个地方是休斯敦天体穹顶。
Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
几乎我所有的零号生日都在伦敦举行过盛大的音乐会,而且经常在巴黎举行。
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
衡量一个人是否诚实的最好标准不是他的所得税申报表。这是他浴室磅秤上的零点调整。
A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
有限的世界只能支持有限的人口;因此,人口增长最终必须等于零。
If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
如果今天外面是零度,明天应该是现在的两倍冷,那么明天会有多冷呢?
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.
如果心脏停止跳动超过两分钟,你的大脑就会大量死亡。我们的意识世界和零之间只有两分钟。这就是我们的意识是多么脆弱。
The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants.
这样做的目的是说它不必是零和。不是环境或工作的问题。你可以两者兼得。如果你在工厂投资,你可以帮助汽车工业实现这一点。
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
我不认为我的书是传记。我从来没有兴趣写一本书,只是为了写一个伟人的生活。我对此毫无兴趣。我的兴趣在于权力。权力是如何工作的。
My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.
我母亲结过三次婚。我爸爸是……我真的没有。我是说,他确实存在,但我和他没有任何关系。