A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
混凝土
Concrete
Concrete breathes sun's heat.
混凝土吸收太阳的热量。
I don't like concrete jungles.
我不喜欢水泥丛林。
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
我们的国花是混凝土三叶草。
What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
混凝土的好处在于它看起来没有完工。
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
你童年早期的记忆似乎对你的情绪有很大的影响。它们是如此具体。
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
把你的计划简化为写作。当你完成这一步的时候，你就已经将无形的欲望赋予了具体的形式。
We had these heavy chunks of concrete and bricks falling on us. Timbers and what-have-you, and my wife was, unfortunately, struck with flying debris.
这些沉重的水泥块和砖块砸在我们身上。不幸的是，木头和你，还有我的妻子，都被飞溅的碎片击中了。
If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.
如果你是一名政治家，你可能想学习佛教的谈判方法。在佛教中，恢复沟通、恢复和解是清晰而具体的。
I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.
我开始用天启的眼光看世界。我们的社会似乎是由混凝土和习俗建造而成的，它只是一个临时的休息场所，是我们的文明在几百年前入住的酒店，总有一天会退房。