A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
谈话
Conversation
No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
在谈话中，凡是想说好听的话的人，是不会有出彩的。要使人高兴，就得说许多无关紧要的话，说许多极坏的话。
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
虽然有成千上万的话题可以进行优雅的交谈，但是有些人在遇到瘸子时不能不谈到脚。
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
只要你知道该听什么，就不会有毫无价值的谈话。问题是谈话的生命。
You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
你认为国家元首之间只有严肃的对话，但实际上他们经常以天气或“我真的很喜欢你的领带”开始。
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
谈话中突然的沉默突然把我们带回本质:它揭示了我们必须为语言的发明付出多大的代价。
The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
我写作的方式是和自己大声对话。奇怪的是，我有点精神分裂，扮演了两个角色。
There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
没有什么比谈论住在纽波特的真实生活更无聊的了，也没有什么比谈论这部剧与真实生活的对比更无聊的了。我不在乎。
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
人们普遍认为，孩子们每年花在看电视上的时间比在教室里要多，与父母实际交谈的时间却少得多。
You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
你在公众的视野里，你只是希望人们不要在你吃饭或谈话的时候上来打扰你。
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
我说话的时候，别人都听;我不知道自己是如何如此轻易地掌握了引人注目的技巧，掌握了谈话的基调。
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
理想的谈话必须是思想的交流，而不是像许多最担心自己缺点的人所认为的那样，是机智或雄辩的表现。
There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
有些时候，你和某人握手，和某人交谈，突然间，你所有的人都被绑在了一起，因为你在一个简单的时刻分享了你的人性。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
沙漠有它的沉默的神圣，人群有它的谈话的神圣。
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
自负比机智更能引起交谈。
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
专家们的谈话是多么令人愉快啊!一个人什么都不懂，这很迷人。
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.
没有所谓的对话。这是一种幻觉。有交叉的独白。这是所有。
I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things.
我很健谈——我只是喜欢参与和谈论事情。
Love without conversation is impossible.
没有对话的爱是不可能的。