A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
童年
Childhood
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
我们都有一个童年的梦想，当有爱，一切都像丝绸一样，但现实是婚姻需要很多妥协。
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
在我的童年时代，我总是觉得我受到了不公正的对待，没有母亲，生病了，我的头上悬着地狱的惩罚的威胁。
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.
我出生在大草原上，那里自由地吹着风，没有什么能打破阳光。我出生在没有围栏的地方。
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
我的童年应该为我的父亲教育我，但没有，因为养育孩子只能由没有孩子的人学习。
My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.
我的童年非常舒适和安全，但上学是一场噩梦。我比其他女孩高很多，她们叫我长颈鹿吉特。
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
我深信，除了少数特殊的情况外，不幸童年的某种形式或另一种形式，对特殊天赋的形成至关重要。
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
人们常说玩耍是严肃学习的一种解脱。但对孩子们来说，玩耍是严肃的学习。玩耍真的是童年的产物。
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
作为一个孩子，我从未被堕落或极端的情况所吸引;我真的想要一个正常的童年。不幸的是，事实并非如此。
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
没有什么比气味更令人难忘的了。一种气味可能是意想不到的，短暂的，转瞬即逝的，但却能让人想起一个童年的夏天，在山中的湖边。
Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.
从很小的时候起，我就被教导要有很强的政治意识，从小就知道，如果可以，我想为这个过程做出贡献。
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
成年期是童年和老年之间不断缩小的时期。现代工业社会的明显目标是把这段时期减少到最低限度。
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
有些作家只能处理童年经历，因为它是完整的。对于另一种作家来说，生活还在继续，他也能继续处理。
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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
我认为童年对每个人来说都是一片失落的土地。
I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.
我知道孩子们喜欢什么，因为我经常和他们联系。而且，他们说，很多为孩子们写作的人能生动地回忆起他们自己的童年，我也能生动地回忆起我的童年。
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
拥有一个快乐的童年永远不会太迟。
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
一个早熟的天才可能被认为是童年时代的天才。当孩子长大了，它会消失得无影无踪。也许有一天这个男孩会成为一个真正的画家，甚至是一个伟大的画家。但到那时，他将不得不重新开始一切，从零开始。
What children expect from grownups is not to be 'understood', but only to be loved, even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness. Intimacy does not exist between generations - only trust.
孩子们对大人的期望不是“理解”，而是被爱，即使这种爱可能表达得笨拙或严厉。亲密并不存在于世代之间——只有信任。
The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
童年的事情不会过去，而是像一年中的季节一样不断重复。