A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
灾难
Calamity
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
灾难是一面完美的镜子，在那里我们能真实地看见和认识自己。
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
对一个人来说，没有执着无疑是一个巨大的灾难。
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
当遭受任何灾难时，首先要记住的是，有多少人逃脱了灾难。
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
往往需要一些灾难才能让我们活在当下。然后我们突然醒来，看到我们犯的所有错误。
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
人类所处的环境使人类遭受了无数的痛苦和悲伤，然而，仿佛大自然在生活中播种的罪恶还不够多，我们还在不断地增加痛苦，通过彼此间的残忍对待使共同的灾难更加恶化。
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
在暴风雨面前弯下腰的柳树，往往比抵抗暴风雨的橡树逃得快;因此，在重大灾难中，有时轻浮轻浮的人比高尚的人更容易恢复他们的弹性和镇定。