A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
下来
Down
Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions... it's tough.
作为一名记者，完成一项任务并不是一件容易的事，尤其是当你面对的是如此专注的运动员，并试图让他们的小比赛计划在不利的条件下发挥时……它是非常艰难的。
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.
我反对在建造桥梁时制定应遵守的规则或条件，以免明天的进步由于把今天的偏见或错误记录或登记为法律而受到尴尬或束缚。
At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.
有时，我们忘记了将我们的思想卸载到超级智能机器上所能造成的巨大破坏，也就是说，直到它们像疯狂的魔法师学徒一样从我们身边跑开，把我们拖到悬崖边向下看深渊。
The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned.
有一张照片引起了很多讨论，这是我拍的一张照片，照片上一个男人头朝下倒在了楼里，楼还没倒。他被困在火里，决定跳下去结束自己的生命，而不是被烧死。
I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do.
我一直有点像一个双重人格。我一直觉得你应该尽可能地让单曲商业化，这样人们就可以走在路上吹口哨唱歌。但另一方面，我认为你可以向人们展示你能做什么。
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
造物随着时间的流逝而毁灭，为了另一棵树的崛起而推倒一棵树。但是，理想的人类应该消灭死亡，使自己繁衍成千万，在一座城市又一座城市地繁衍生息，把每一个寄生虫都救活，直到把仅仅存在的积累膨胀到可怕的地步。
I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.
我想这可能是因为我们个人作为一个乐队没有在一起。我们没有往同一个方向拉。我总觉得如果你在录音室里玩得很开心，你会在磁带上看到，这对我们来说是一个很糟糕的专辑。
I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
我深信，学会默想主的人，就能凭著他的脚奔跑，凭著他的灵行走。虽然他可能会被他的假期赶着去，但那不是问题的关键。问题是他的精神发展得有多快。放慢速度需要一段时间。
If you asked me now who i am, the only answer i could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest : my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, i can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those i once so desperately wished to be.
如果你现在问我是谁，我唯一能确定的答案就是我的名字。至于其他的:我的爱，我的恨，甚至到我最深的渴望，我再也不能说这些情感是我自己的，还是从我曾经如此绝望地渴望成为的人那里偷走的。
A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are, or that you have to dumb down what you would normally write for kids. But I think you have to work harder when you write for kids, to make sure every word is right, that it's there for the right reason.
很多不为孩子们写作的人认为这很简单，因为他们认为孩子们没有他们那么聪明，或者你必须简化你通常为孩子们写的东西。但我认为，当你为孩子们写作时，你必须更加努力，确保每一个字都是正确的，都是为了正确的理由而写的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
我只是坐在钢琴前，把它弹出来。
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
当我坐下来写一首歌的时候，这是一种即兴创作，但是我把它正式化了一点，让它进入录音室，当我走到麦克风前的时候，我对我要做什么有一个模糊的概念。
Words can be very powerful. Why not use them to lift someone up today rather than knock them down.
语言可以很强大。为什么今天不用它们来扶起一个人，而不是把他们打倒。
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
写作没什么。你所做的就是坐在打字机前流血。
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down.
在你让我失望之前，我是个梦想家。
I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
我想如果我要写一部科幻小说，我要走一条我想走的新道路。