A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
优势
Advantage
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
悼词。对一个人的赞扬，这个人要么拥有财富和权力的优势，要么认为自己已经死了。
It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
一个人要有一定程度的抱负，才能抓住那些显而易见的机会。
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
世界上有一半人是白痴，另一半人聪明到可以利用他们的不雅之处。
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
当时逃亡奴隶很少见，作为一个逃亡奴隶讲师，我有一个优势，我是第一个出来的。
There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.
在大多数发生在你身上的事情中都有一个优势，即使它不是立即显现出来的。
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
自吹自擂的好处是可以把它说得很厚，而且恰到好处。
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
伟人比他们的下级有一个最大的优势，那就是有和他们一样好的仆人。
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
没有什么比在任何情况下都保持冷静沉着更能给一个人带来优势了。
We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.
我们曾经遇到过这样的情况:你很高兴能做自己喜欢做的事，却被别人利用了。
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
一种几何不可能比另一种更真实;这只会更方便。几何不是真的，它是有利的。
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
记日记的一个好处是，你会清楚地意识到自己不断遭受的变化，这让人安心。
There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming.
有必要利用刚果已经发生的变化，无论这种变化将带来多么悲惨的后果。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.
最高法院对关塔那摩监狱进行司法审查的决定将消除这些优势。
One advantage women throughout time have had is that the little boy in men always remember a time when women were all-powerful.
一直以来，女性的一个优势是，男性身上的小男孩总是记得女性无所不能的时候。
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
当我们不能指望胜利时，退让是一种优势。
Dont wait for the 'Perfect time,' you will wait forever. Always take advantage of the time that you're given and make it perfect for you.
不要等待“完美的时刻”，你将永远等待。永远要利用你所拥有的时间，让它变得完美。
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
很少有人敢否认节制在提高一个处于战争状态的国家的效率方面的好处。
There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.
似乎有一种精神品质，在引导他进行发现的过程中，似乎具有特殊而极端的优势。这就是永不让例外被忽视的力量。