A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
火
Fire
We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.
我们一直坚持,也将继续坚持,无论下雨还是着火,教会的这种信仰都必须继续得到支持。这就是我们的立场。
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
只有一个老板。客户。他可以把钱花在别的地方,把公司里从董事长到每一个人都炒了。
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
没有不变的运动,爱就不能继续,正如火不能燃烧一样;一旦你失去了希望和恐惧,你就失去了它的生命和存在。
The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
消防车出动了,街上有成千上万的人。你有一个选择。你可以吃这个,或者让黑人在午餐柜台吃饭。
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
向上看,大声笑,大声说,保持你脸颊的颜色和眼睛里的火焰,装饰你的人,保持你的健康,你的美丽和你的动物精神。
Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
直呼其名——一杯白兰地加水!这是当前名称,但不是合适的名称;要求一杯液体火和蒸馏诅咒。
I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.
亲爱的,我累了,因为没有你,我的心烦躁不安;把它挤进小墨水滴里,然后贴上去。我在这里,在一轮明月的照耀下,独自烫伤。
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
当你老了,头发花白,睡意朦胧,在炉火旁打盹时,请取下这本书,慢慢地读,梦见你曾经眼神柔和,阴影深沉。
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。
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
有一天,在掌握了风、浪、潮汐和重力之后,我们将为上帝驾驭爱的能量,然后,人类将在世界历史上第二次发现火。
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
他是一匹面容姣好的马,与其说是火,不如说是警;虽然由于他的耳朵被割得离他的头很近,失去了耳朵,使他显得异常凶猛。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
How can you put out a fire set on a cart-load of firewood with only a cup of water.
你怎么能只用一杯水就把一车柴火扑灭呢?
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
热情而无知,犹如无光之火。
A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.
善意的火花点燃爱的火焰。
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。
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。