A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
晚上
Evening
What a nice night for an evening.
多么美好的夜晚啊。
The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.
晚间新闻是一个时过境迁的概念。
They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.
它们在文学上相当于晚礼服上的亮片。
Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the evening.
带着你的思想去睡觉吧，因为早晨比晚上更聪明。
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
呵，你比黄昏的空气更美，它披着万千星辰的美丽。
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
说晚祷的人，是派哨兵站岗的船长。他可以睡。
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
一个晚上的伴侣，和一生的伴侣，需要非常不同的条件。
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
早晨要起得早，晚上要起得晚，因为睡觉的人不能捕到鱼。
An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
我所见过的最恶心的东西，就是一件晚礼服，走起路来露出女人的脚踝。
The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
生活的质量是如此之高，任何地方，你可以滑雪在早上和晚上冲浪-有一些说的。
Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone.
整个晚上我都在录制萨克斯管长时间的延迟，音乐会开始后大约四个小时，如果我想休息一下，我就把萨克斯管放回去。
In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.
早上我们收到一些很稀的咖啡。午餐我们吃了土豆汤，里面有几块肉，晚上我们吃了一个非常薄的肉汤，里面有一些土豆。
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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
在这短暂的霜冻和烈日当空的日子里，不要在我们周围的人身上每时每刻都有一种激情洋溢的态度，不要在他们才华横溢的时候，在他们的人生道路上有一种悲凉的分裂，不要在黄昏前入睡。
When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.
当我们在汽车城做很多事情的时候，我们有四个人在前线。当我们晚上开始的时候，我们会从乐队的一端开始，跟着乐队走。主唱总是在变。这是我第一次把它记录下来。
I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.
我记得有天晚上开车回家时，他们正在收音机上看报纸。其中一篇文章是关于我和妻子分居的。听有关婚姻破裂的新闻报道是一件很奇怪的事情。
On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers.
星期三晚上，也就是我在这个问题上见到女王陛下的那一天，我有机会同我打算向女王陛下呈递的大臣们进行了会谈。
I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening.
我不让孩子们在工作日晚上看电视。他们转而练习演奏乐器。我的两个儿子都弹钢琴、打鼓和弹吉他，所以我和丈夫晚上听他们演奏。
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
一个人的年龄应该是平静的，童年应该是好玩的。在生活的任何一端努力工作似乎都不合适。正午，太阳要晒伤，人要在太阳底下劳苦。但是早晨和晚上应该一样平静和愉快。