A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
设计
Design
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
世界的现实很少能达到人类想象的崇高目标。
In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.
在大学里，你在设计你想成为什么样的人。我想成为一个大读者。
For those whom God to ruin has designed, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
因为神要败坏的人，是他所豫备好的，先要败坏他们的心。
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
一切都取决于你如何安排……设计的重点在于运动。
Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
压力是一种“设计师病”，许多所谓的“受难者”都为之骄傲。
We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.
在不了解邻国的意图之前，我们不能结盟。
In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.
在两天内，你很难得到你通常想要的设计项目的质量。
Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.
当时，消费税被设计成对拥有电话的人征收的奢侈品税。
I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.
我的专业是工业设计/绘画，但是我还没有时间去发挥我的创造力。
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
从设计上讲，花园既与室内有关，也与花园之外的土地有关。
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
图书之旅的设计几乎是为了击败一个作家对他的书的任何感情。
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
我打算设计……一个我喜欢的车站;也就是说，工程屋顶等等。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Luck is the residue of design.
运气是设计的产物。
My passion for music has always inspired my designs.
我对音乐的热情一直激励着我的设计。
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
设计在艺术中，是对各种事物之间关系的认识，是各种元素在创作中的流动。你不能发明一个设计。你能认出它，在第四维度。就是你的血，你的骨头，你的眼睛。
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
游戏节目的设计是为了让我们对我们所受的教育中剩下的随机的、无用的事实感觉更好。
Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.
我们为别人做的任何普通的帮助，或任何富有同情心的伸出援手，一开始似乎都不会有什么结果，但可能正在播下一颗我们现在看不到的种子。有时候，我们需要做的只是尽我们所能，然后相信一个我们无法设计或注定的展开。
Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.
回顾过去，电子游戏设计似乎是一种自然的契合，尽管在我的成长过程中并没有这样的东西。我在十几岁的时候造了一个井字游戏机，计划去参加一个科学展览的那天晚上，它就冒烟了。