A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
体面
Decent
I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
我是个不错的网球运动员。反手好。
I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.
我是这部剧的主角。我应该理个像样的发型。
I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
我认为彼得詹宁斯是三巨头中唯一一个正派的。
Not getting enough retribution or decent incentives to keep me at it.
没有得到足够的惩罚或适当的奖励来让我坚持下去。
Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
在我内心深处有个正派的男人，只是找不到而已。
Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
有时候，政治活动让正派人的言行举止像完美的小丑。
I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?
我认为自己很有幽默感。没有幽默感的生活是什么?
I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.
我想我是一个体面的人。有时候我看起来很棒，有时候我看起来很可怕。
Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.
虽然我的手语还不是很流利，但我可以有一个相当体面的对话。
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
世界文明的命运取决于为全人类提供一种体面的生活水平。
I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
我想要一个为有能力工作的人提供体面工作，为不能工作的人提供体面保障的社会。
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
苏菲派诗歌，在某种意义上，是自助诗歌，关于如何过上体面的生活，如何应对死亡。
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I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
我试着去淹没我的悲伤，但是那些混蛋学会了游泳，现在我被这种体面和美好的感觉淹没了。
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
我为自己的直率道歉，但每当我看到一部莎士比亚戏剧的半正式演出落幕时，我都感到有些悲伤，因为我永远不会认识这个人，或者任何一个如此热情睿智的人。
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
有些事情一个人连对自己都不敢说，每一个正派的人心里都有许多这样的事情。
If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good.
如果我们能够让人们在规模足够大的情况下获得可观的回报率，那么我们都可以通过做好事做得很好。
Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.
班上的小丑永远不允许和正派的人约会，但是你不会挨揍，你会被邀请参加聚会，每个人都喜欢你。
So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.
所以在那些日子里，他们把任何一个既能唱歌又能看起来体面的年轻人都抓起来，啊，同时。