A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
世界上的少数奇迹只有当有视力的人才能看到的时候才会存在。
There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.
没有什么比思考秩序和有益的安排更令人愉快的了。
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
现在你可以在几小时内去世界上的任何地方，没有什么是美妙的。
I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more.
我见过一些我喜欢的卡萨诺瓦，也见过一些我不喜欢的——我希望能再见到一些。
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
很少有人有足够的勇气承认自己的错误，或有足够的决心改正它们。
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
直到几年前，我的博士学位课题还不流行，但今天却很受欢迎。
I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.
我很幸运，我有很好的抛光皮肤，没有皱纹，所以我可能还会活几年。
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
在你的生活中，只要你不做太多的错事，你只需要做几件对的事。
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
除了被夸大，很少有新的真理能够战胜既定观念的阻力。
I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.
我认为至少有几年的默默无闻是很重要的，人们对待你就像对待其他人一样。
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
对所有人都要有礼貌，但对少数人要有亲密的关系，让那些少数人在你给他们信心之前得到充分的考验。
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
事实上，据我所知，很少有小说家对改编自小说的电影感到满意。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.
我经历过几次车祸。
I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people.
有一次我打了狗仔队半拳。我打了几个人。
I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.
再过几年，等我上了大学，等时机成熟，我也会拿到我的。
It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.
赢得一场测试赛总是好的，如果你轻松获胜，它会在对手身上留下一些心理痕迹。
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
正如伟大的人有能力用几句话说很多东西一样，平庸的人也有一种天赋，那就是多说，少说。