A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
对
Against
If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.
如果你坚持某件事,就会有人支持你,有人反对你。但如果你什么都不坚持,就没有人支持你,也没有人反对你。
I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.
我想当我们面对它的时候,我们知道这张专辑将会和所有早期的经典材料相比较,因为它将会回到最初的五张专辑。
Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.
无论他们被传讯到哪里,都有人对他们提出了明显的指控。他们受到公正的审判,并获准为自己辩护。
Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.
每个父母都想知道,他们的孩子在他们长大到可以自己做决定之前,不会受到那些有特定计划的人的伤害。
I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.
我认为我们反对联合国,我们疏远了我们的盟友,入侵了一个没有威胁到我们的国家,这是先发制人的打击,这是错误的。
Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
愤怒就像一种刺,植入我们的体内,让我们咬牙切齿对抗魔鬼,让我们对他怒不可遏,而不是让我们彼此对立。
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
语言是一层皮肤:我用我的语言去摩擦另一层。这就好像我有文字而不是手指,或者手指在我文字的顶端。我的语言因渴望而颤抖。
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
反对理性的人是真正的叛逆者,但为捍卫理性而反对暴政的人比乔治三世更有资格捍卫信仰。
I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.
我曾尝试用这种病毒来预防接种斑疹伤寒,并试图用大型动物生产大量血清,但都没有成功。
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
在我旅行的过程中,那种认为一切值得知道的事情都是在剑桥知道的想法逐渐消失了。在这方面,我的旅行对我非常有用。
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.
天空的景色比任何景色都更富于变化,有金色和银色的岛屿,杏色的半岛,在绿松石和天蓝色的衬托下,还有玫瑰色。
I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.
我不能评判你们中的任何一个。我对你没有恶意,对你也没有丝带。但我认为,现在是你们开始审视自己、评判你们所生活的谎言的时候了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
嗯,任何人第一次尝试乘气球环游世界的可能性都不大。我们所有试图乘坐气球环游世界的人都是乘坐实验飞行器,因为这些飞行器无法进行测试。
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
支持同胞反对本国人,但前者可能失策或掠夺。
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
人们在夕阳下关上门。
Never use someones flaws against them.
永远不要用别人的缺点来攻击他们。
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
当你遭受神经攻击时,你正在遭受神经系统的攻击。一个人有什么机会反对一个制度呢?
Loyalty is standing on someone’s side even if their actions are against your will.
忠诚是站在某人一边,即使他们的行为违背了你的意愿。