A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
地球
Earth
Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.
正如人类活动正在扰乱地球的碳循环一样,我们的行为也在改变着水循环。
If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.
如果蜜蜂从地球表面消失,人类的寿命将不会超过四年。
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
财富的物质存在于地球、海洋以及自然和独立的生产中。
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
把你受伤的心带来,告诉我你的痛苦;地球没有天堂无法治愈的悲伤。
The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.
海洋是一个美丽的,未被探索的地方。我不知道为什么地球上没有人在那里。
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And beatles are the biggest bastard on earth.
你必须是个混蛋才能成功,这是事实。披头士是世界上最大的混蛋。
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
如果我们不允许地球产生美和欢乐,它最终也不会产生食物。
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
是人为的和传统的,在地球上和生命的过程中最肯定成功?
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
纯洁和单纯是人类翱翔于大地和一切暂时的自然之上的两翼。
No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
从来没有野兽征服过地球;自然界从来没有被肌肉力量征服过。
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
让一个学者携带地球上所有的书籍,他将只是一本活字典:仅仅是一个发音清晰的时钟。
And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
地生植物,海摇波浪,哥伦比亚的子孙就永远不作奴仆。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return.
一旦你尝到了飞翔的滋味,你将永远昂首阔步地走在地球上,因为你曾经在那里,你将永远渴望回到那里。
The earth has music for those who listen.
地球为那些聆听者提供了音乐。
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
艺术家是情感的容器,情感来自四面八方:来自天空,来自大地,来自一张纸片,来自一个路过的形状,来自一张蜘蛛网。
If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.
如果你从生态学的角度来看,森林砍伐是造成破坏的首要原因。你砍伐树木来建造房屋,作为燃料,结果你没有树了,你必须继续前进。如果你把地球作为一个整体,最终你将无处可去。
There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.
在保护公众知情权方面,世界上没有哪个国家有着更强大的传统。
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
没有丑陋的语言这种东西。今天,我听到每一种语言,仿佛它是唯一的一种;当我听到一种即将消亡的语言时,它使我不知所措,仿佛它是地球的死亡。