A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
建筑
Building
In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.
在我住在派克大街的那栋楼里，有十个人可以买下洋基队，但是他们没有一个人能把球击出洋基球场。
If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
如果我想做衣服，或者我想做建筑，或者设计舞蹈，你都能做到——它们都在类似的设计保护伞下。
Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
我们下面的泰晤士河越来越浅，四周都是阴影——建筑和桥梁的阴影构成了这幅可怕杰作的基础。
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
细节和工艺水平是在最初的设计理念中体现出来的。所以当我开始画画的时候，我知道我想要什么样的细节。
I don't think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you're lucky if you find something you like to do, which is true, and then it's a miracle if you get paid to do it.
我不考虑行业或建筑，但有人说你很幸运，如果你找到了你喜欢做的事情，这是真的，如果你得到了报酬，这将是一个奇迹。
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 answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
应对衰老的方法是让自己的大脑忙碌起来，继续过着永无止境的生活。我一直很钦佩契诃夫，因为他在死于肺结核的时候盖了一栋新房子。
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。
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
当我设计建筑的时候，我考虑的是整体的组成，就像一个身体的各个部分会组合在一起一样。最重要的是，我想人们将如何接近建筑和体验那个空间。
It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.
重要的是，那些批评建筑师的人——不管他们建造的是你喜欢的还是不喜欢的——要欣赏他们如何奉献自己，把一切都投入到建设中去。
There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.
有一种思想，一种内部结构的基础，在各种力的吸引和排斥下，不断地在形状、方向和速度上变化，并扩展和分裂成不同的形状或群。
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
建筑对女性来说尤其困难;没有理由。我不想责怪男性或社会，但我认为在很长一段时间里，客户都是男性，建筑行业都是男性。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.
信念是建立在你所知道的东西之上，这样你就能达到你所知道的东西。
It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.
这并不是说要改造一个对颜色有不良品味的人的客厅。这是关于修复历史建筑，并向社区灌输自豪感，这可以通过设计新的公共空间和社交聚会场所来实现。