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改变
Change
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
我们现在接受这样一个事实:学习是一个终生的过程,要跟上变化的步伐。最紧迫的任务是教人们如何学习。
Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
也许有一天,当时机成熟的时候,改变就会发生,而不是等到为时已晚的时候。总有一天,改变会被接受为生活本身。
It's more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.
更重要的是推广一种生活文化。我的意思是,我相信我们需要做的不是改变法律,而是改变人们的心。
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
如果你意识到改变的唯一载体是那些失去个性的人,那么更有必要看清真相。
So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.
所以这意味着当你不相信不可避免的事情时,这意味着你不期望事情会变成这样。你可以改变他们。
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
一个优秀的人的缺点就像太阳和月亮一样。他们也有缺点,人人都看得出来;他们改变了,每个人都尊敬他们。
Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.
看看现在所有想要完全改变的公交车,完全改变。我想如果我给他们准确的零钱,他们应该带我去我想去的地方。
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
不加批判的语义学是博物馆的神话,在这个神话中,展品是意义,文字是标签。切换语言就是改变标签。
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
心胸狭窄、缺乏想象力的小个子男人过着循规蹈矩的生活,沾沾自喜地抵制一切可能会扰乱他们的小天地的变化。
I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.
我回到自己的房间,收拾好换洗的衣服,拿起我的班卓琴,开始沿着路走。不久,我发现自己上了向东的高速公路。
Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.
生活不是一场恢复过去状况的赛跑。人们也不必急着去迎接未来。观察事物的变化是生活有趣的地方。
Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.
每一种文化都有值得羞愧的地方,但是每一种文化也有权利去改变,去挑战消极的传统,去创造新的传统。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Had the serenity to accept the things you cannot change; the courage to change the things you can and the wisdom to know the difference.
坦然接受你无法改变的事实;有勇气去改变你所能改变的,也有智慧去辨别两者的不同。
I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.
我摘下眼镜,他们换了我的头发。他们就是这么做的。他们为我购物,所以衣服也不一样。这不是我做鼻子整形之类的极端改造。
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
当你改变看待事物的方式时,你看待事物的方式也会改变。
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
你永远不会改变你的生活,除非你改变你每天做的事情。
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
你是受过教育的。你的证书就是你的学位。你可以把它看作通往美好生活的门票。让我请你想出一个替代方案。把它看作是你改变世界的门票。
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
如果事实与理论不符,那就改变事实。