A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
地球
Earth
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
很难找到比树更可爱的东西了。它们与地球公称球面成直角相切。
The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.
穷人的脚步最轻。我们的收入越高,我们控制的资源就越多,造成的破坏也就越大。
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
惩罚诚实的错误会扼杀创造力。我希望人们移动和震动地球,他们会犯错误。
We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.
我们都对地球以外的生命感兴趣。我们都对外面的世界着迷,因为我们真的不知道。
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then i ask myself the same question.
我总是想知道为什么鸟能在地球上任何地方飞的时候却呆在同一个地方。然后我问自己同样的问题。
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
世界上没有什么景象比一个美丽的女人为她所爱的人做饭更吸引人的了。
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
当我在地球上的日子一去不复返,我在这里的活动一去不复返,我要他们把我倒过来埋起来,让那些批评我的人巴结我!
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
世上所有的地狱和动乱,甚至连上帝的手都没有握过,以致他所画的一个字母或一行字都没有损坏。
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
幸福,我不知道到哪里去寻找你,在地上,在空中,还是在天空;但我知道你的存在,并不是徒劳的梦想。
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
的确,我们对私有财产的特殊概念使我们不愿耗尽地球上的积极资源,它赞成污染。
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
世上没有人比施舍的人更可憎、更可厌。即使没有人比接受它们的人更痛苦。
For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
因为我们必须是这样或那样的东西,一种资产或一种负债,是帮助你飞翔的翅膀上的腱,还是把你束缚在地球上的锁链。
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
如果你没有一个可以忍受的星球,那么房子有什么用呢?
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
在地球上摘一朵花,你就能移动最远的星星。
I wish I'd done everything on earth with you.
我希望我和你一起做了世界上所有的事。
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
我觉得除了相信人类的善良,我不需要其他信仰。我是如此专注于地球的奇迹和它上面的生命,我不能想到天堂和天使。
Earth girls aren’t easy.
地球女孩不容易。
The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.
地球对大多数动物来说是一个很大的孤儿院。