A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
机会
Chance
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
在危急关头，我没有退缩，也没有大声喊叫;在机会的重击下，我的头是血的，但我没有低头。
The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.
这个家伙来到本垒板前，总有机会获得大满贯，而每个人都忘记了他错过的所有时间。
We have to be fearless. We have to take chances. We can't live life just being afraid of what comes next. That's not what living is about.
我们必须无所畏惧。我们必须冒险。我们不能仅仅因为害怕接下来会发生什么而生活。那不是生活的意义。
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
对双胞胎来说，大声朗读是我能坐下来的唯一机会。我给他们读图画书，直到他们自己读为止。
There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.
有那么多的人，不管是聋子还是其他有能力的人，他们很有天赋，但是却被忽视了，甚至没有机会迈出第一步。
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
如果把艺术仅仅作为一种社会洞察力的手段，幻想就被剥夺了成为普通事物的机会，而现实则被剥夺了成为异国情调的机会。
We get one chance at this life. We have one body, one mind, and one life to live. Reading provides us with a vicarious experience of others' lives.
我们这辈子只有一次机会。我们只有一个身体，只有一个思想，只有一条生命。阅读为我们提供了一种对他人生活的替代体验。
Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
表演在某种程度上比滑冰容易，在其他方面则更难。在滑冰中，你只有一次机会，而在表演中，你可以一遍又一遍地这样做。
I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
我开始为一家只有9个人的小公司打字、整理文件、接电话。那家只有9个人的公司给了我找到自己的路的机会。
No one falls in love by choice, it is by chance. No one stays in love by chance, it is by work. And no one falls out of love by chance, it is by choice.
没有人会因为选择而坠入爱河，那是偶然的。没有人能靠偶然的机会保持爱情，而是靠工作。没有人会因为偶然而失去爱，这是一种选择。
Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.
失去父母是件很难过的事……我经常坐在这里想，如果爸爸妈妈还活着，有机会看到他们的孙子孙女长大，那该有多好。
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
他们设法找到时间……告诉我，我没有机会被录用，而且我还活着，真应该感到惊讶。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on.
我明白了，如果你等待的时间足够长，你可能会在你放弃的事情上得到第二次机会。
The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
成功的人是有机会并抓住它的人。
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
自由不过是一个变得更好的机会。
I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
我快要死了，但突然有了第二次活着的机会。
There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.
有很多事情我想告诉他，但在某种程度上，我也觉得我失去了最亲近的人。我得到了第二次生存的机会。所以在某种程度上，我觉得我是为我们两个人而活……我会尽我最大的努力。
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
小说给了我们第二次机会，而生活却否定了我们。