A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
火
Fire
Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.
我的圣诞礼物!这是在大厅里点燃好客之火，在心中点燃慈善之火的季节。
The erection of a fire altar which alone validates taking possession of a new territory is equivalent to a cosmogony.
仅仅建立一个火坛就能证明拥有一个新领土是正确的，这就相当于宇宙运动。
I never said i hated you. I just said that if you were on fire, I might consider roasting marshmallows. Big difference.
我从没说过我恨你。我只是说如果你着火了，我可以考虑烤棉花糖。很大的差别。
They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.
他们要么炒了你，要么不炒。他们只能解雇你。这就是他们所能做的。他们不能拿走你的拇指。
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
一个人在谈论地球上的任何事情时，都可以带着热情，带着狂喜，但只有一个人在谈论自己时才带着贪婪。
I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.
我有一些朋友，一些诚实的朋友，而诚实的朋友很少;我的烟斗，我的篝火，一本并不新鲜的书。
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
如果你摔断了脖子，如果你没有东西吃，如果你的房子着火了，那么你就有麻烦了。其他一切都不方便。
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
在传送带上引起火灾的事件发生在各种工业环境中，而不仅仅是在煤炭环境中。
The words of fire that from his pen Were flung upon the fervid page, Still move, still shake the hearts of men, Amid a cold and coward age.
他笔下的火焰之词，仍在那狂热的书页上挥洒着，在一个寒冷、怯懦的时代，仍在打动、仍在动摇着人们的心。
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
但是黑人女性呢?我最真诚地怀疑，是否有其他任何一个种族的女人，能在这样一场恶魔般的大火中，把自己的美丽带上来。
Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
嗯，是的，我解雇了很多人。一般来说，我喜欢其他人被解雇，因为这总是一个糟糕的任务。但是我已经解雇了很多人。
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
偏见和不容忍，由于争论而沉默，通过迫害而努力保持沉默，在过去是用火和剑，在现代是用舌头。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
爱是一团火。但是它究竟是会温暖你的壁炉，还是会烧毁你的房子，你永远也说不准。
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.
一个地方——一个房间、一座建筑或一座城镇——的生活模式越多，它作为一个整体就越有生命力，它发出的光芒越多，它就越有自我维持的火焰，这是一种没有名字的品质。
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
在每个人的生活中，总有那么一段时间，我们内心的火焰熄灭了。然后，它会因为与另一个人的相遇而燃烧起来。我们都应该感谢那些重新点燃内在精神的人。
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
你带到火边，随手拿在手里的书，毕竟是最有用的。
Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.
停火是重要的，但它只能持续非常、非常、非常短的时间。