A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
忙
Favor
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
如果我们做必要的事，所有的机会都对我们有利。
Forget the favors you have given; remember those received.
忘记你给予的恩惠;还记得那些收到。
If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
如果你的孩子想帮我粉刷他们的卧室，让他们来吧。
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
在现实世界中，有一些事情是赞成孤立工作的。
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
我有穿工作服的朋友，我不会用他们的友谊来换取世界各国国王的青睐。
I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
我的记忆力很好，但是我知道我也忘记了很多事情，为了生存，我把很多事情都压扁了。
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
那些自称赞成自由，却轻视鼓动的人，是那种不耕田就想要庄稼的人。
You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
你有一个很好的神话:每个人都认为你们欧洲人是无可挑剔的。但我知道你们是混蛋。
You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.
你开始看到，任何你能帮助的人都是你的朋友，你几乎可以帮助任何人。
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
我认为，图书出版的经济效益得益于长期的图书经营。你所有的钱都花在最后一堆书上，而不是第一本。
People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.
人们指责我支持全球化。这相当于指责我赞成早晨太阳升起。
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
我赞成帮助所有国家的繁荣，因为当我们都繁荣时，彼此之间的贸易对彼此来说变得更有价值。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
因为在人类变化和进步的伟大空间里，有一段短暂的时间，某些人类的普遍目标在他身上得到了令人满意的体现。
The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
北非的骡子总是谈论他母亲的兄弟马，但从不谈论他的父亲驴，而更喜欢那些据说更有名望的人。
Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.
投手们把我撞倒时帮了我一个忙。这让我更加坚定。我不会让那个投手把我救出来的。他们说如果你仰面躺着就打不了人，但我没有。我起床。
Do your kids a favor - don't have any.
帮你的孩子一个忙——不要给他们。
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
不要寻求大众的喜爱;它很少是通过诚实合法的手段获得的。只寻求少数人的见证;不要给声音编号，而要给它们称重。
I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.
我不唱。我帮了大家一个忙，但我不唱歌。