A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
结束
End
Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.
当然,我在货币体系上已经采取了非常温和的立场,我确实认为我们应该结束美联储。
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
矫揉造作是一定的畸形;年轻人以荒诞的方式塑造自己,一开始是可笑的,最后往往是邪恶的。
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
年老时的忠告是愚蠢的;因为,有什么比我们越接近旅程的终点,就为道路增加给养更荒唐的事呢?
If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.
如果快到一章的结尾了,而且我真的很投入,我就会越来越早起床,因为我很兴奋能开始工作。
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.
如果我能在五分钟内把故事从头到尾讲完,我就准备开始写了。在这五分钟里,它是一个常数。
It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.
对任何演员来说,进入意识和思想的其他领域都是快乐的。一天下来,我们都喜欢盛装打扮,到处玩耍。
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
语言诗人只写语言本身。阿什伯里的诗人只写诗本身。在我看来,这似乎是一条死胡同。
When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.
当你走极端时,你所要做的就是让一只脚走到另一只脚的前面。只要迈出下一步。就是这样。
As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.
正如我在文章结尾所写的,如果我们退后一步,面对汹涌的洪流,那么我们已经迈出了第一步,去想象我们可能想要做些什么。
Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.
每个人都知道事情不一样。一个大型垂直整合公司的电视部门负责人知道一个成功的节目能赚多少钱。
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
奥运会本身决不能是一个目的,它必须是为所有青年人创造一个庞大的体育教育和体育竞赛方案的手段。
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
正如一个人几乎可以使自己相信他倾向于相信的任何事情一样,无论我们以“真理是什么?”
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Life has many different chapters of story. One bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book.
人生有许多不同的篇章。一个糟糕的章节并不意味着这本书就结束了。
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
我本可以用这种方式赚钱,或许还可以自娱自乐地编写代码。但我知道,在我的职业生涯结束时,当我回首多年来筑起隔离人们的高墙时,我会觉得我的一生让世界变得更糟。
Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?
你是否曾经爱过一个人,完全地爱着她,但却因为生活的原因不得不结束这段关系?
Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
说唱只是整个语言游戏和技巧的一个极端。饶舌乐是为听觉享受而设的。
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
等待结局,孩子们,等待结局。