A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
设计
Design
They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.
他们日复一日地坐在委员会里，每个人都涂上一种颜色，结果是灰色的。我们都听说过这句话，这是真的，也很诙谐，骆驼是由一个委员会设计的马。
Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.
由于社会保障是专门为提高低收入者的退休收入而设计的，采用累进式的福利方案，该方案在使拉丁裔人摆脱贫困方面发挥了巨大和必要的作用。
I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.
一方面，我能理解这一点，但我们必须记住，这个制度是腐败的，它对我们不利，所以你不能给那些能从这个制度中获益的人定罪，因为这未必是他们的错。
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
这么多艺术家、设计师和建筑师都住在这里，这一点都不引人注目。它没有反映在城市景观或博物馆。例如，许多艺术家在世界各地展览，只是不在柏林。
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
多年来，我一直生活在不舒服的信念，大多数规划和建筑设计遭受缺乏真实和基本的目的。在我看来，最终的目的必须是改善人类。
But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.
但我很幸运能和伟大的人一起工作。我在这里和巴黎都与杰出的造型师合作。我和一个很棒的设计团队一起工作。我真的允许每个人都提出自己的想法。我几乎依赖他们来激励我。
We had talked a couple of times about his last wishes to be shot out of a cannon of his own design. All I'm doing is trying to make sure his last wish comes true. I just want to send my pal out the way he wants to go out.
我们谈过几次他的遗愿，就是要从他自己设计的大炮里射出去。我所做的一切都是为了确保他最后的愿望能实现。我只是想按我朋友想要的方式送他出去。
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
世界上没有一个妻子不给她的丈夫量个准确的尺寸，给他称个体重，把他放在心里，了解他，就像她按照自己的设计和规格订购他一样。
I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.
我赞成设计，不是因为我认为自己更有天赋，也不是因为我认为有人能预见未来三、四年，而是为了确保设计是一个合乎逻辑的、理性的决定，是在分析利弊之后做出的。
Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
嗯，我从来没有学过设计，我上艺术学校学的是艺术，你知道，雕塑之类的东西，最后做了雕塑之类的东西，开始一起做椅子和珠宝，这就是我的开始。
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
书不过是废纸，除非我们把睡着时获得的智慧付诸行动。当我们对生者感到厌倦时，我们可以向死者寻求安慰，因为他们在谈话中没有丝毫的乖戾、骄傲和故意。
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
人生的真正悲剧与一个人的先入之见无关。事实上，人们总是被它们的简单、宏伟的设计以及其中所固有的奇异元素所迷惑。
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Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.
无论一个人把世界看作是上帝的创造，还是科学正在探索的一个世俗的谜，从山脉、沙漠、雨林到普通蚊子设计的精美细节，一切都是美丽和威严的，这是不可否认的。
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
设计不只是外观和感觉。设计就是它的工作原理。
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
一个设计师知道他达到了完美，不是因为没有什么可以添加的，而是因为没有什么可以删除的。
I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone.
我喜欢和设计师一起工作，但我也喜欢和设计师建立私人关系。造型师是一个伟大的拉出整个装备，包括配件，并动摇我的舒适区。
Pastry is expanding so much. We have watches, glasses and we have the Capsule Collection, an edgy collection made out of fine fabrics and beautiful designs that Angela and I have put all of our heart and soul into. We are very excited for that to come out.
糕点做得太大了。我们有手表、眼镜，还有胶囊系列，这是一个前卫的系列，由优质面料和美丽的设计制成，安吉拉和我全身心投入其中。我们对此非常兴奋。
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
真理，无论多么苦涩，都可以被接受，并编织成一种生活的设计。