A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
优秀
Excellent
What is easy is seldom excellent.
容易做的事很少是优秀的。
Parents are excellent at stating the obvious.
父母很擅长陈述显而易见的事情。
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
一切优秀的东西都是难得的,难做的也是难得的。
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
我是优秀的。每个人都爱我。我爱我自己,我喜欢混蛋。
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
每个记者都有一本小说,这是写小说的好地方。
But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.
但是我有时间打高尔夫球,而且我们有四门很好的课程。
That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!
那是太好了!我的意思是,它什么也没做,但它看起来真的很酷!
Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
不要用“理想”这个外来词。我们有一个很好的本地词“谎言”。
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
信念再好也没用,除非它把自己变成行动。
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
我的中心在后退,我的右边在后退;情况很好。我要攻击。
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
我总是使我的食物与我的体质相适应,我的健康也总是很好。
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
优秀的公司不相信卓越——只相信不断的改进和变化。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
我第一次读到一本优秀的作品,对我来说就像交了一个新朋友;当我读一本我以前读过的书时,它就像一本旧书的相遇。
As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.
作为旧金山市长,我将为旧金山提供愿景,努力把旧金山建设成为一个美丽、规划完善、住房和交通条件优越的城市。
Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.
木炭或气体。两者都有很好的效果,所以选择一个最适合你的烹饪风格。
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
如果人们不是谦虚到没有人愿意树立榜样,不是虚荣到没有人愿意追随他们,事情就会变得很好。
The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.
对我来说,工作就是一切,如果我觉得有更好的办法,我明天就会把所有的规则都扔到海里,然后把它们扔到海底去。
I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.
我想胡安突然停了下来——他走到半路下了火车。他当然是一个优秀的作家和好人,但我不是一个民族主义者。