A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
事件
Affair
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
死是一件非常枯燥无味的事。我给你的建议是,不要和它有任何关系。
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
死亡是一件非常枯燥无味的事情,我给你的忠告是:与它毫无瓜葛。
Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
人的本性就是如此,所有人在别人的事情上比在自己的事情上看得和判断得更好。
One cannot manage too many affairs; like pumpkins in water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
一个人不能管理太多的事情;就像水中的南瓜一样,当你试图按住另一个的时候,一个会弹出来。
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
偶尔有外遇对婚姻是有好处的。它增加了情趣,防止它变得无聊……我应该知道。
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
二十不能期望六十能容忍所有的事情,六十对二十的永恒的爱情感到厌烦。
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
一个完全戒酒的人,除了戒酒,什么都不做,尤其是不参与别人的事务。
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
你应该像新奥尔良人庆祝死亡一样,用歌声、笑声、舞蹈和大量的酒来庆祝一段爱情的结束。
Smart man + smart woman = romance. Smart man + dumb woman = affair. Dumb man + smart woman = marrige. Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy.
聪明男人+聪明女人=浪漫。 聪明的男人+愚蠢的女人=婚外情。 愚蠢的男人+聪明的女人=婚姻。 愚蠢的男人+愚蠢的女人=怀孕。
Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
生活是一件极其寂寞的事。你一个人来到这个世界,又一个人离开这个世界,但在我看来,你活着的时候比来来往往还要孤独。
I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
我从来没有想过要进入唱片业,因为我仍然认为唱片业是一个阴险的行业。这是艺术和商业之间可怕的冲突,而且永远都是这样。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
在这世上的事上,得救的不是信心,乃是缺乏信心。
I've had many happy love affairs.
我有过许多幸福的爱情。
I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
我必须让这段爱情足够可信。很欧洲。
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.
白天和黑夜的浪费,都是对爱情的错误投资。
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
当前的事态发展是以信誉为基础的。