A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
欣赏
Admire
You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.
你会发现,那些真正伟大的演员,那些你真正欣赏和敬仰的演员,往往是非常乐于奉献、慷慨、热情的人。
Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.
有时候寿司很好吃,有时候又没有什么比得上一大块牛排。这取决于你当时的味蕾在哪里。
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
你知道,写作真的很难,需要真正的耐心和技巧。我不知道我有没有。我很欣赏别人的优点,也很羡慕别人的优点。
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
我不同情任何努力工作值得做的人。我很钦佩他。我同情那些不工作的人,不管他认为自己处于社会的哪个阶层。
I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
我钦佩麦当娜,因为她总是做她想做的任何事。她经历了一些有争议的时期,人们拒绝她,但她不断重塑自己。
I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.
我对很多事情都有极大的兴趣,也许太多了。我钦佩那些似乎只专注于一种固定的纪律而不顾其他一切的人。
I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.
我钦佩他们,因为他们一路走来,为其他拉美新来者打开了新的机会。拉丁美洲人已经走了很长一段路,他们的角色和机会似乎正在改善。
How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.
和奥普拉相比,我是多么的骄傲。我真的很佩服她。她是少数民族妇女,所有这些都是她自己做的……我很高兴能和奥普拉一起跳萨尔萨舞,而不是穿着女装的多纳休。
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
我应该有一个关于女性的博士学位。但事实是我经常不及格。我很喜欢女人;我钦佩他们。但是,像所有的男人一样,我不了解他们。
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
当艺术作品像稀有的蝴蝶一样挂在墙上时,它们就被去文质化了。我们欣赏他们的美丽,我本人并不反对。但艺术远不止于此。
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
我钦佩一些神父和修女,他们独自去做上帝的工作,在贫民区提供帮助,但就教会的制度而言,我认为这是卑鄙的。
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
我是一个热爱人类自由的嫉妒者,认为这是我们在人类中所钦佩和尊重的一切的绝对条件。我把伏尔泰的话反过来说,如果上帝真的存在,就有必要废除他。
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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
只有拍卖师才能够平等、公正地欣赏所有的艺术流派。
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
幸福的秘密在于欣赏而不渴求。那不是幸福。
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
停止崇拜是堕落的证明。
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
人人都钦佩的书是那些没人读的书。
The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
我最佩服男人的品质是踏实。
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
我钦佩比我年长的跑步者——他们现在是我心目中的英雄。我想随着年龄的增长像他们一样。