A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
生物
Creature
With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
他抬起眼睛，注视着主人的目光，注视着人类的欢乐、安慰和援助;富人的保护人，穷人的朋友，唯一至死不渝的忠贞不渝的人。
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。
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。
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
书是一种脆弱的生物，它经受着时间的磨损，它害怕啮齿动物、大自然和笨拙的双手。因此，图书馆员不仅要保护图书不受人类的侵害，还要保护图书不受自然的侵害，并把自己的生命奉献给这场与遗忘力量的战争。
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。
You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
如果你有一个动物园，你不想让其他动物看到你。你想让他们出去玩，举止得体，你知道，当猴子来要香蕉时，他们不会表现得像猴子一样。如果你想让他们按照他们的本性行事，你就得让他们自己待着。
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No creature is there crawling on the earth, no bird flying with its wings, but they are nations like unto yourselves.
地上没有爬行的物，没有展翅飞翔的鸟，但他们是与你们相似的民族。
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
人不是环境的创造物，环境是人的创造物。我们是自由的个体，人比物质更强大。
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。
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。
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。
I'm very much a creature of habit.
我是个很有习惯的人。