A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
地球
Earth
The earthen pan gains nothing by contact with the copper pot.
土锅和铜锅接触,什么也得不到。
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
我们在这里,在地球上。我们谁也没有对地球的任何权利。
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
春天又回来了。地球就像一个懂诗的孩子。
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
服务他人是你在地球上为你的房间支付的租金。
Covetousness is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth.
贪婪之心,非满了土,永不知足。
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
感谢上帝,人类不能飞翔,不能毁坏天空和大地。
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
树木是大地对倾听着的苍穹无休止的倾诉。
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
我们为别人提供的服务是我们为自己在地球上的房间支付的租金。
There was definitely a period when I just felt out of sync with earth.
确实有一段时间,我感到与地球不同步。
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
钱不是天上掉下来的。它们必须在地球上获得。
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
世界上没有什么比真正的友谊更值得珍惜的了。
Don't let anyone bring you back to earth, keep shooting for the stars.
不要让任何人把你带回地球,继续向星星射击。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
过去,在地球上,主要是开发外国资源和扩大国内领土。
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
年轻人把他的材料收集起来,建造了一座通向月球的桥,或者,也许是地球上的一座宫殿或寺庙,最后,中年人决定和他们一起建造一座木棚。
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
地球上每个人生命中的每一刻、每一件事都在他的灵魂中播下了某种东西。
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。
You were not put on this Earth just to get in touch with god.
你来到世上,并不是为了与神联络。
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
男人最不同的地方是天堂和人间,而女人最坏的地方和最好的地方是天堂和地狱。