A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
欲望
Desire
I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.
我有一种强烈的愿望,那就是走出去,尽我最大的努力。就好像我把所有的东西都装在一个小瓶子里,当我尽我所能的时候,所有的东西都会出来。
I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
我对望远镜和它们的工作方式很感兴趣,因为我有一种强烈的欲望,想看看东西是什么样子的,所以我学会了如何使用望远镜,在天空中发现东西。
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
渴望被他的同伴们观察、考虑、尊重、赞扬、喜爱和钦佩,这是人类心灵中发现的最早也是最敏锐的性情之一。
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
一个作家对小说艺术或工艺的了解,只会使他对写作的需要或欲望减少一点点。最后他知道了所有的诀窍,却无话可说。
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize. Their hearts desire, their dream....But the price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.
但是他不明白这个价钱。人类永远不会做。他们只看到奖品。他们的心渴望,他们的梦想……但是得到你想要的东西的代价就是得到你曾经想要的东西。
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
欲望是贫困。欲望是心灵上最大的不洁。欲望是行动的原动力。心中的欲望才是真正的不洁。即使是欲望的火花也是非常邪恶的。
Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
不耐烦本身转化为一种立即采取行动的愿望,就像通常的不耐烦一样,以最容易的方式解决问题。
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
我不想对任何人吹嘘,也不想看到任何人吃乌鸦,不管是比喻的还是别的什么。我们应该团结起来,建立一个人人都可以随时吃火鸡的国家。
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
对确保我们的价值观念在某些客观的天堂是永恒和安全的渴望,也许只是对童年的确定性或我们原始过去的绝对价值观念的渴望。
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
现代性的存在是以一种欲望的形式存在的,这种欲望就是要消灭之前的一切,希望至少达到一个可以被称为真正的现在的点,一个标志着新起点的起点。
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
你可以在欲望中看到潮水的上涨,欲望越来越侵入人格,它不仅吸引了自我的感官,也吸引了它的理想成分。
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
你若喜爱神和人的爱,就当谦卑。因为骄傲的心,除了自己不爱别人,别人也不爱他。在美德、力量和理智都不能战胜的地方,谦逊才能发挥作用。
KEEP EXPLORING
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I love being physical, but I don't have any desire to prove myself.
我喜欢身体接触,但我没有任何想要证明自己的欲望。
It is my really sincere desire that we get an opportunity to play long enough for people to really grab on and become fans, because I think it's a great project.
我真诚地希望我们能有机会踢足够长的时间,让人们真正抓住机会成为球迷,因为我认为这是一个伟大的项目。
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
然而,正是在这种孤独中,最深刻的活动才开始。正是在这里,你发现了没有运动的行动,那是深沉的休息的劳动,在朦胧中看到的远景,以及超越所有欲望的满足,它的极限延伸到无限。
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作为一个全球品牌,我们的成功直接关系到我们如何选择我们的特定客户希望成为的地点。墨西哥的洛斯卡沃斯是理想的恩格尔和沃尔克市场,越来越受世界豪华旅客的欢迎,寻找特殊的物业为第二家的机会。
You desire to escape. I wish to run away. I thought we might help each other.
你渴望逃离。我想逃跑。我想我们可以互相帮助。
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
对知识的渴望就像对财富的渴望一样,随着知识的获得而与日俱增。