A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
熟悉
Familiar
To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.
使我的兄弟姐妹大笑是我一生中最大的快乐。我喜欢那些能自嘲的人。
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
这则新闻引起了孩子们的厌倦感,就像孩子们一旦熟悉了一个玩具,就会对它感到厌倦,并要求换一个新的一样。
I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.
我一直很高兴能工作。对我来说,有多少人熟悉我的名字,我的照片,或者其他什么并不重要。
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
对一个外国的人影响最大的不是找到或没有找到熟悉的东西;而是在熟悉的地方找不到他们。
Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.
我们的父亲在我们很小的时候就去世了,所以我们的母亲抚养了六个孩子。作为一个抚养六个孩子的少数族裔女性,我们透过她的眼睛看到了这个世界。
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
每个人都认为这个文明已经持续了很长时间,但它真的需要很少的祖父的孙女带我们回到黑暗时代。
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
祖父去世后,我开始模仿他的口音,让自己想起他。致敬。他是一位战争英雄,他的双手非常棒。
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
事实上,没有医学上的专长,因为要完全了解许多最重要的疾病,一个人必须熟悉它们在许多器官中的表现。
There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.
没有一个时刻听起来太熟悉了,只要它听起来很熟悉,我们就想用它来做点什么来消除那种舒服的感觉。
And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.
就像我说的,我很感激我的哥哥们,因为他们不让我赢。他们让我学会和他们一起玩,我认为这是我学到的最重要的事情。
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
我是由我的母亲和我的两个妹妹抚养大的,虽然她们比我大,很小就离开了家,所以严格来说我是独生子女,但我很受宠爱。
The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.
雄鹿告诉他,他是儿子中最大的——父亲最喜欢的——他警告父亲,如果他试图射杀任何一只雄鹿,它们的鹿角会把他撕成碎片。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.
你可能有前妻或前夫,但你永远不能有孩子。
After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.
大约六个月后,我告诉妈妈,我想停止上课,她很聪明,不会强迫我继续。此外,上课要花钱,这在我们家里一点也不充裕。
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
现在,最简单的小学生都知道阿基米德愿意为之牺牲生命的真理。
Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
对母亲的仇恨是熟悉的,但母亲的仇恨仍然让人吃惊。
Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.
作为一个妻子和母亲是非常令人满意的,但这不是一个创造性的表达,这是我需要快乐的东西。
I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
我想在这里待很长时间,所以我要尽我所能来这里。我想带着我的女儿走过红毯,有一天把她送给别人。我要确保我还在这里,确保我的两个年幼的儿子长大成人。