A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
可以
Could
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
认为童贞是一种美德是人类思想中的迷信之一。
When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change
当你年轻健康的时候,你从来没有想过你的一生会在一秒钟内改变
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
我发现我可以用颜色和形状来表达我无法用其他方式表达的东西——那些我无法用语言表达的东西。
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
我的数学从来没有学好过——我似乎从来没有说服老师我的答案不是字面意思。
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
一个以写作为生的人并不一定要去任何地方,如果他想去,他也很少能负担得起。
Life is all about risks and it requires you to jump. Don't be a person who looks back and wonders what they could have had.
生活充满了风险,它需要你去冒险。不要做一个回头看过去的人,想着他们本可以拥有什么。
So this is my life. And i want you to know that i am both happy and sad and i'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
这就是我的生活。我想让你们知道,我既快乐又悲伤,我还在想这是怎么回事。
The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.
陪审团最早可能在下周就会审理此案,但辩方表示,他们只是想在最后一分钟引入一堆废话。
if you're too busy looking for the perfect person, you will probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
如果你太忙着寻找完美的人,你可能会错过那个不完美的人,那个可以让你完全快乐的人。
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
人生的主题是什么——致富?所有那些发家致富的人可能都在围绕着生活的真实主题跳舞。
Sometimes i wish i could just keep you forever because I could quite possibly be in love with you and i can see myself falling in love with you.
有时候我希望我能永远和你在一起,因为我很有可能爱上你,我能看到自己爱上了你。
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
如果一个人能和女人友好相处,这将是多么令人愉快的一件事——与男人的关系相比,这种关系是如此的秘密和私密。为什么不实话实说呢?
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
In a way, I was spoon-fed, if you will, a career. It was fully manufactured by a studio that believed that they could put me on their posters and turn me into their bottle of Coca-Cola, their product.
在某种程度上,可以说我是被灌输了一份事业。它完全是由一个工作室制作的,他们相信他们可以把我放在海报上,把我变成他们的可口可乐瓶子,他们的产品。
If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
如果我们能挣开束缚灵魂之脚的躯体的枷锁,我们将体验到巨大的快乐。这样,我们就不因身体的苦楚受苦了。我们将获得自由。
If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
如果你告诉我只能做一件事,我会选择现场音乐会。
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
如果我们能用手画出我们用眼睛看到的东西。
I'm just saying that you could do better.
我只是说你可以做得更好。
I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
我出生在一个我所能期望的最非凡、最古怪的家庭。