A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
力
Force
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
我能忍受蛮力，但蛮力的理智是相当难以忍受的。它的使用有些不公平。它打击的是智力。
Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
好的表演全写在剧本里。如果它不在页面上，那么它真的不会有任何区别。你不能仅凭个性的力量行事。
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
一个领导者最重要的品质就是被认可。所有健康状况受到质疑的领导人都明显缺乏实权。
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.
艺术界是一支完全由志愿者组成的队伍。如果一个人不想呆在这里，那么他或她就不必呆在这里。我们应该和任何我们想交往的人交往。
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
青春，高大，精力充沛，充满爱——青春，充满优雅，力量，魅力。你知不知道，你的晚年也会以同样的优雅、力量和魅力降临?
Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
因此，无论多么大的力，也无法把一根绳子，无论多么细的力，拉成一条准确笔直的水平线:总是会有向下弯曲的。
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
同样的时间和空间的偶发事件迫使政治家或士兵作出决定，促使历史学家作出决定，尽管不那么紧迫。
As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.
虽然很辛苦，也很累，但我强迫自己每周至少和女友们一起吃一次晚餐，或者在外过夜。否则我的生活就是工作。
It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.
这意味着道并不强迫或干涉事物，而是让它们以自己的方式工作，自然地产生结果。然后需要做的都做了。
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
品格的伟大完全在于灵魂的力量，也就是说，在于思想、道德原则和爱的力量，而这一点可以从生活中最卑微的状态中找到。
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
如果我们不能通过理性、通过影响、通过榜样、通过艰苦的努力和个人的牺牲来修补文明的坏地方，我们当然不能通过武力来做到这一点。
We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.
我们不需要放弃使用常规武力。我们将准备击退对我们的国家安全和生存构成真正威胁的任何明显和目前的危险。
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I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
我有一种理想主义的观点，认为科学是人类解放和进步的力量。
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
总有一天，科学的头脑中会涌现出一种机器或一种力量，它的潜力是那么可怕，那么绝对可怕，甚至连敢于用酷刑和死亡来制造酷刑和死亡的战士，也会感到震惊，从而永远放弃战争。
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
电视是我们生活中的一种主要力量——一种力量。无论是对它的指责，还是对它的艺术诚实，都必须非常小心地对待。
I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.
我不想强迫维和国家觉得我在把他们赶出去。
Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
迈出第一步，你的大脑就会调动所有的力量来帮助你。但首要的是你要开始。一旦战斗受到惊吓，你内外的一切都会来帮助你。
I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.
我甚至不得不强迫自己移动眼球。只是盯着看很容易。