A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
环境
Environment
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
没有罪恶就没有美德。我所追求的是让我的角色在一个罪恶的环境中如何表现自己的美德。这就是测试人的方法。
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
也许灾难是自然的人类环境,尽管我们花费了大量的精力试图摆脱它,但我们已经为在灾难中生存做好了准备。
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.
拥抱树木对我有镇静作用。我说的是巨大的树木,当我们都死后,它们就会出现。我拥抱了这个小岛的每一个角落的树木。
In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.
换句话说,我们感兴趣的是生活在相同的生物、地理和社会环境中,并由他们的过去所决定的人的解剖和心理特征。
Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.
除了椅子之外,茶壶是家居环境中最普遍、最重要的设计元素,几乎所有接触过设计世界的人最后都设计了一个。
When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.
当我任命环境部长为主要内阁成员时,即规划和优先事项委员会,渥太华发出的信号很重要,因为这是官僚机构所理解的。
I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.
我认为它将实现我们所说的承诺,它将是有史以来进入手持环境的最成功的产品,它恰好有许多不同的功能。
Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?
扬克斯让我变得坚强,让我相信自己,因为很多人会怀疑你,不相信你。有人会相信你,但是环境太恶劣了,没人想让你出去,你知道吗?
I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.
我一直是该领域环境保护和倡议的坚定支持者。但我愿意设定优先顺序。如果我们必须在一个地方削减,我们将不得不——为了增加另一个地方,我愿意这样做。
We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.
我们必须回到我们最后知道的安全地标。我不能确切地说在哪里,但我认为在工业革命开始的时候,我们开始把大量的能源投入到工具中,我们开始用这些工具破坏环境。
He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.
因此,他将不得不运用他所能获得的知识,而不是像工匠塑造他的手工作品那样塑造结果,而是通过提供适当的环境来培育生长,就像园丁为他的植物所做的那样。
I find littering very annoying. It's a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has so little respect for the environment and, consequently, other people. If we had clean streets, a lot of other things would be fixed almost effortlessly.
我发现乱丢垃圾很烦人。这是一件小事,但也是一件大事:一个乱丢垃圾的社会是一个对环境和他人都不尊重的社会。如果我们有干净的街道,许多其他的事情将几乎毫不费力地得到解决。
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There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.
生活在一个聪明的环境中是一件令人兴奋的事情。
I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.
我在一个充满乐趣的环境中长大——你努力工作,尽情玩乐。
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
自然中的绿色是一回事,文学中的绿色是另一回事。自然和文字似乎有一种天然的反感;把他们聚在一起,他们就会互相撕成碎片。
It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.
就像任何关系一样,环境越包容,好的东西就会出现得越多,坏的东西就会暴露得越多。
We had been taken from The Wild and brought together in one place, because, for some strange reason, people found us interesting.
我们从野外被带到了一个地方,因为某种奇怪的原因,人们觉得我们很有趣。