A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
建筑
Building
Anybody can leap off a building.
任何人都能从建筑物上跳下。
One great building does not make a great city.
一座伟大的建筑不可能造就一座伟大的城市。
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
教育就是架起桥梁。
I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.
我避开邻居——幸运的是,我住的大楼有两个出口。
It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
把漂亮作为建筑物的一部分是很不寻常的。
We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
我们必须制止关闭学校和建造监狱的趋势。
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
建筑物越高,地基必须打得越深。
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
光,上帝的长女,是建筑中最主要的美。
A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.
铁路就像一个谎言,你必须不停地建设它,让它屹立不倒。
As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.
作为一个社会,我们没有花那么多时间来建设公民互联网。
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
宇宙的四个组成部分是火、水、碎石和乙烯基。
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
我的建筑将成为我的遗产……他们会在我死后很久替我说话。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry. It's a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it's this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It's a fascinating contrast.
艾森豪威尔大厦——家具搭配不当;一切都是糟糕的装饰和质量。每个人都在低头看他们的黑莓手机。这真是一个疯狂的,不匹配的环境。但从外观上看,它是一座粉刷过的华丽建筑。这是一个有趣的对比。
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
当你在塑造一个角色的时候,或者至少当我在塑造一个角色的时候,你开始说,‘我怎样才能让人们喜欢他?’
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
信任的力量最难的地方在于它很难建立,也很容易被摧毁。建立信任的本质是强调你和客户之间的相似性。
In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.
在任何一家这样的餐厅里,厨师都处于同样的位置,建立关系。
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
我最重要的项目是为我在喜马拉雅的朋友们建造和维护学校和诊所,并帮助他们修复美丽的寺庙。
The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.
建筑的任务是改善人与人之间的关系:建筑必须让人放松,而不是让人变得更糟。