A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自由
Freedom
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
自由:想象力最宝贵的财富之一。
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
宁愿站着死,也不要跪着活。
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
金钱不会创造成功,而创造成功的自由会。
The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.
热爱自由一直是西方人的品质。
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
我们不能为了保卫国外的自由而放弃国内的自由。
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
我想要自由来充分表达我的个性。
Only the man who has known freedom can define his prison.
只有了解自由的人才能定义自己的监狱。
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
我们是否建立自由取决于我们自己。
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
没有失败的自由,就没有真正的自由。
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
人们普遍认为奴隶不仅要工作,还要唱歌。
Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.
狼的自由常常意味着羊的死亡。
I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.
我相信自由和城市之间的联系。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
许多政治家习惯于把它作为一个不言自明的命题,即在人们能够充分利用他们的自由之前,没有人应该是自由的。这句格言就像古老故事里的傻瓜,他决定在学会游泳之前不下水。
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens.
把你最好的祝福放在心里,看看会发生什么。
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon who could not be happy?
有了自由,有了书,有了花,有了月亮,谁会不快乐呢?
I know not what course others may take but, as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
我不知道别人会怎么做,但对我来说,要么给我自由,要么让我死。
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
人是生而自由的,在任何地方都受着枷锁的束缚。
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
只有首先证明自己是可以接受的,我们才会考虑如何被别人接受。