A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
很少有战士会考虑到赛马的问题，当他们没有马的时候，就会被放到牧场上，带着尊严和舒适地老去。
One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.
我意识到…在网站、产品或企业中，主要出于利他目的而存在的成功案例是多么的少。
Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
世界各地仍有不少歌剧在演出，但除了观众的欢迎程度，没有什么能比几场演出更能保证演出的成功了。
I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.
我被打过几次，真的被打过几次，但我不认为我给任何一个被打过的人留下过难忘的、持久的印象。
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
要明白朋友来来去去，但你应该把握住一些珍贵的朋友。你年纪越大，就越需要那些在你年轻时就认识你的人。
I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.
我不得不说我这辈子只工作了几天。我过去常常要剪草坪，当我上初中的时候，我在体育场的一个小卖部工作。
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
有一些教条和双重标准，以及哲学中令人遗憾的输出，混淆了科学家对道德问题的思考。
Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.
诗人需要的是鼓励吗?悬而未决的问题。也许他需要泄气。事实上，相当多的人需要更多的沮丧，尽可能的沮丧。
I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
我坐了几年，因为我不确定自己接下来想做什么。在音乐和文化领域，很多事情都在发生变化，所以这似乎是一个退一步的好时机。
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
除了一些简单的原则外，我认为英语散文的声音和节奏很重要，作家和读者都不应该太相信规则，而应该相信自己的耳朵。
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
这不是一片几英亩的土地，而是我们正在捍卫的事业，无论我们是在一场战斗中击败敌人，还是一步步地击败敌人，结果都是一样的。
Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
我设计服装是因为我从芝加哥的剧院开始的，但是不知怎么的，几句台词就落在了我的肩上。我在学校学过，我一直很喜欢。
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There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
有相当多诚实的词曲作者在写他们的人际关系和他们自己的个性特征。但出于某种原因，一旦他们走出卧室，他们的诚实似乎就不随他们而来了。
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
真爱就像鬼一样;每个人都在谈论它，但很少有人见过它。
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
在华尔街，他和其他一些人——有多少人?三百，四百，五百?恰恰变成了……宇宙的主人。
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
狐狸多是灰色的，但很少能长得好。
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
艺术家的世界是无限的。它可以在任何地方找到，远离他住的地方或几英尺远。它总是在他的门阶上。
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
所有的成年人都曾经是孩子……但只有少数人记得。