A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
钻石
Diamond
This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
这颗钻石有这么多克拉，几乎像个萝卜。
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
智慧必被智慧所挫败:以牙还牙。
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
谚语是心灵的钻石，是心灵的宝石。
The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.
钻石不经磨擦就能抛光，人不经试验就能完善。
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
名言是聪明人手指上的钻石，愚人手中的鹅卵石。
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
我从不担心饮食。我唯一感兴趣的胡萝卜是钻石的克拉数。
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
大自然造出了一颗卵石和一颗母卵石。宝石造钻石，情人造女人。
I walk alone with a cross and a diamond stone. I'm a diamond inside the rough that's too mighty for maricons.
我一个人带着十字架和钻石走。我是一颗未经雕琢的钻石，对马孔多来说太强大了。
The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
钻石切割得越多，就越闪亮;在那看似艰难的事上，神除了成全他的百姓之外，没有别的目的。
None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
我的任何行为都没有受到寻找丈夫的影响，也没有考虑过我是否有一天会成家，也没有想过住在一所很棒的房子里，更没有想过拥有一颗钻石会有多棒。
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
即使整个大地和大海都变成金子，也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。