A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
生物
Creature
I am not a creature of habit.
我不是一个习惯的动物。
I'm very much a creature of habit.
我是个很有习惯的人。
Man is the creature of circumstances.
人是环境的产物。
No human creature can give orders to love.
没有人能给爱情下命令。
A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.
博览群书的女人是危险的动物。
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
与女人相比,男人是一个可怜的家伙。
I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.
我宁愿做夜猫子也不愿做老头子。
We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature.
我们说,‘市场暴跌’,就像某种咆哮的动物。
If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
如果有一种生物代表了我的本质,那就是蝴蝶。
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
一个健康的老人,他不是一个傻瓜,是生活中最幸福的人。
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
对于像我们这样的小动物来说,只有通过爱,浩瀚才可以忍受。
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
有什么比享受自由带来的快乐更能使人幸福呢?
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
人类是最高贵的生物,这一点也可以从没有其他生物对这一说法提出异议这一事实推断出来。
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
人类是唯一只会消费而不生产的生物。它不产奶,不下蛋,它太弱了,拉不动犁,它跑得不够快,抓不到兔子。然而他是所有动物的主人。
The imitator is a poor kind of creature. If the man who paints only the tree, or a flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer.
模仿者是一种可怜的动物。如果只画眼前的树、花或其他表面的人是艺术家,那么艺术家之王就是摄影师。
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
这首诗中的这个生物可以用它自己的离心力把自己组合成一个存在。
In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.
在这本书里有两个世界上最有趣的人物——上帝和你自己。圣经是上帝和人类的故事,是一个爱的故事,你我必须在其中写下我们自己的结局,我们未完成的生物和造物主的自传。
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
除了人类,我不知道世界上还有什么动物会因为过去的痛苦经历而坐在角落里哭泣。