A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
效果
Effect
One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.
一团红色在错误的地方,观众不是在看英雄,而是在看一块幕布(或类似的东西),你的整个效果就消失了。
Cause and effect the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them.
因果最好的人往往是为了逃脱而死于自己的手,而那些被遗忘的人永远无法理解为什么有人想要逃离他们。
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.
事实上;和平文学几乎完全由和平主义者阅读,尽管效果很好,但需要的是对那些迄今尚未赢得和平事业的人进行游说。
I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.
我不知道一开始会有什么影响。有一个想法的种子,我永远无法表达,就在这篇文章的开始,字面上就像一个细胞。
String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.
弦理论将能量和物质描述为由看起来像弦的微小的、摆动的能量链组成。弦的振动的音高决定了它的效果的性质。
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
我的祖母对我的生活产生了最戏剧性的影响,因为她让我朝一个方向前进,为了我的理智,为了我成为一个善于社交的人,我不得不回到另一个方向。
That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.
对我来说,这是开始和结束的地方,而这些歌曲是最打动我的。就好像我抓住了自己的某个部分,直到我把它释放出来,我才知道它就在那里。
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
如果我们对动物创造的经济只给予很少的关注,我们就会发现明显的预谋、毅力、决心和完善技巧的例子,以便达到它们的目的。
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
大炮轰鸣所产生的道德效果是最不寻常的,我们许多人都认为,我们从来没有听到过比从我们后方传来的轰鸣和撞击声更令人高兴的声音。
The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.
答案是,在布隆迪,拥有一份干净的健康证明具有非常特殊的意义:除非并且直到你支付了医院的治疗费用,否则你根本不能离开,你实际上是一个俘虏。
The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
在世界杯比赛中,这种“亲嘴就说”的做法是一种消极的做法。我们会看到关于球员的负面报道,这会影响他们的信心和国家队在球场上的整体表现,更不用说申办比赛了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
我们将赢得非洲之战,这实际上是一场人类之战。
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
就像一位伟大的诗人,大自然知道如何用最有限的手段产生最大的效果。
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
因果是一个事实的两个方面。
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
原因停止了,效果也停止了。
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
逻辑就像威士忌,如果喝得太多就会失去它的有益作用。
When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
当我在广播中说一些不真实的东西时,我的意思是它明显不真实。我想人们知道我只是在说些有理有据的话。或者是为了搞笑。