A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人
Folks
God gives little folks small gifts.
上帝给了小人物小礼物。
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
有些人聪明,有些人则不然。
Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.
人们想要被倾听,他们想要被听到。
Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
有些人看起来很忙,什么都不做,似乎是不可或缺的。
More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
最重要的是,我希望家乡的人们对我有正确的看法。
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
根据我的经验,没有缺点的人几乎没有优点。
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
我们把更多的精力放在帮助人们进入老年,而不是帮助他们享受老年生活。
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
我只想穿过中央公园,看着人们经过。花一整天的时间观察别人。我想念。
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
不要借书,因为没有人还书;我的图书馆里只有别人留给我的书。
My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.
我的父母是纯粹的禁酒主义者。他们都是非常善良的人,有着很高的道德标准——但是非常压抑。在我的家里没有拥抱和亲吻。
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
这个世界上大多数的麻烦都是由那些不关自己事的人造成的,因为他们不关自己的事,就像天花病毒不关别人的事一样。
I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.
我喜欢描绘年轻人的生活,一方面,如果你有女孩或年轻人的角色,你必须绝对有年轻人来填补他们——这是现在普遍承认的。