A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
朋友
Friends
To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.
致我所有的图书管理员朋友,书籍的冠军,生活之家的真正魔术师。没有你,这位作家就会湮没在尘土中。
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
疯狂地追求成功让我失去了我所能爱的一切:我的妻子,我的三个孩子,一些我想和他们一起变老的朋友。
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
说我们多么爱新朋友,以及我们对他们的看法很容易,但言语永远无法把我们与旧朋友之间的所有联系都说出来。
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
不要以恶人为朋友,不要以小人为朋友。要以仁德为朋友,要以最好的人为朋友。
The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
我乐队里的人在台上台下都是好朋友。我现在拥有的乐队成员可能是我拥有过的最好的乐队。
We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.
我们有很好的白人朋友,他们劝我们不要走上战争的道路。我的朋友兼兄弟查普曼先生告诉我们战争将如何结束。
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
我们的朋友中有谁带着他们的家人离开了这个岛,或者他们必须服从什么?他们的命运恐怕是专制或毁灭。
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
多年来,你的身体变成了活生生的自传,告诉朋友和陌生人你生活中的小压力和大压力。
We all need that one person in our lives who we can tell everything to and trust with our lives. Otherwise life becomes so lonely and painful.
我们都需要一个人在我们的生活中,我们可以告诉一切和信任我们的生活。否则,生活会变得如此孤独和痛苦。
I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.
我是一个非常平易近人的人,我总是把自己放在最后。无论是家人还是朋友,我总是先想到他们。
But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.
但我很高兴能被录用,能与我所有的朋友和我钦佩的人一起工作。你只是幸运地工作——这是底线。
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
当我想到无神论者的朋友,包括我的父亲,在我看来,他们就像没有音乐天赋的人,或者从来没有恋爱过的人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.
我在伦敦呆了很长时间,我并不害怕,但那是一个孤独的地方,即使你在那里有朋友。我的工作带我环游世界,遇到很多有趣的人。但我想如果我不能回家,如果我不能回到我认为的真实生活中,我会感到害怕。
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
对我们的朋友来说,重要的是要相信我们对他们是毫无保留的坦诚,而对友谊来说,重要的是我们不是。
It takes half your life to learn who your friends are and the other half to keep them.
了解你的朋友是谁花了你半辈子的时间,而保持他们的关系则花了你半辈子的时间。
Most of my actor friends don't believe it's possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.
我的大多数演员朋友都不相信放手就能快乐起来,有一段时间我就是这么认为的。头两年我每天都很痛苦。我做了这么糟糕的梦。但后来我决定开始我的小店的工作,所有这些都消失了。
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
老柴最好烧,老酒最好喝,老朋友最好信赖,老作家最好读书。
Even the strongest man needs friends.
即使是最强壮的人也需要朋友。