A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Figure
Figure out who you are.
弄清楚你是谁。
Competition helps people figure it out.
竞争帮助人们找到答案。
Say yes, and you'll figure it out afterward.
说“是”,然后你就会明白了。
I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.
你知道,我不想成为那个娘娘腔的花样滑冰运动员。
I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.
我从没想过我会有自己的动作玩偶。
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
一张平凡的脸和一个没有身材的人帮助了许多妇女向上爬。
Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
当你搞不清杀手是谁的时候,他们看起来很聪明。
You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.
你做个交易。你算出你能忍受多少罪。
When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
当我离开监狱时,我必须想办法拥抱我的过去。
A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.
有曲线的图形总是提供许多有趣的角度。
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
你可以通过你喜欢的电影来判断你是谁。
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
我终于明白了活着的唯一理由就是享受它。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.
很多时候,孩子不能让他们的父母犯错,因为他们必须和他们一起生活,因为他们必须爱他们。当你年轻的时候,你不能骑着你的大轮子去看最好的西部片。你必须住在那里,你必须弄清楚。
I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
我为生活中的优柔寡断所困扰。我不知道在餐馆点什么菜。
It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.
我花了好几年的时间才明白,你不会掉进一桶黄油里,你会为它而跳。
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.
有些人把散文家的部分写得很好,因而在这一过程中获得了不朽的成就;但是我们没有很多这样的书,它们在我们的书架上只占一个可怜的数字。遗憾的是,事情竟如此发展,因为一位优秀的散文家是你能想象到的最愉快的伴侣。
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
如果你真的想要什么,你可以想办法让它发生。
I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.
我是一个谜,一个未知的人。你不知道我接下来要做什么。我喜欢这样。