A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
描述
Describe
Film has to describe and show.
电影必须描述和展示。
I describe myself as a human being.
我把自己描述成一个人。
Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.
即使到现在我也说不出我为什么那么喜欢滑冰。
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
我不想描述未来。我试图阻止它。
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
所有残忍的人都把自己描述成坦率的典范。
You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.
你知道,我真的不太擅长用音乐来描述事物。
I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
我更喜欢描述一个场景,我在那个场景中移动。
It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
对我来说,描述我不认识和不理解的人是不礼貌的。
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
如果你不能将你正在做的描述为一个过程,你就不知道你在做什么。
I keep saying the word "weird" over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.
我一遍又一遍地说“怪”这个词,但这是我唯一能形容它的方式。
The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.
“有趣”这个词有点像“爱”这个词——我们没有足够的词来描述它的多种多样。
There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.
当你的宝宝第一次认出你并向你微笑时,你的喜悦之情是无法用语言来形容的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.
明星品质是最难描述的东西之一。它从人身上散发出来,而他自己可能都不理解它。这是恒星区别于我们的特质。
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
很难用一句话来描述我的研究激起的热情和奉献精神。我们几乎生活在贫困之中。我用过铅笔,两支五分钱一支,我的钢笔丢了,也买不到自来水笔。
Because I'm married and have kids, I feel like I sometimes get pegged as a choirboy or something, but I wouldn't exactly describe myself that way.
因为我结了婚,有了孩子,我觉得自己有时会被贴上唱诗班男孩之类的标签,但我不会这样描述自己。
If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
如果我允许记者们描述一个收藏,而他们犯了错误,我会感到沮丧,因为这些撤销从未被注意到。
Any time they try to describe the tsunami to us, I am so touched by how high they look in the air, when they explain it with their hands-they go so high.
每当他们试图向我们描述海啸时,当他们用手解释时,我被他们在空中的高度所打动——他们的高度是如此之高。
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.
我的大部分书,我都会出去看看背景。如果你仔细地描述事情,它会让场景变得很流行。