A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
焦虑
Anxiety
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
二十世纪人的自然角色是焦虑。
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
烦恼是在烦恼到期之前为它支付的利息。
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
哲学:客观的焦虑;在贫乏的思想中寻求庇护。
I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.
我确实有一点表现焦虑。
The cure for anxiety about the future is not nostalgia for the past.
治愈对未来的焦虑不是对过去的怀旧。
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
对未来的焦虑除了给你带来更多的悲伤,还能给你带来什么呢?
It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
我们手头上的火药和铅那么少,这一点也不令人担心。
Better a little in peace and with right, than much with anxiety and strife.
宁可有一点点和睦和公义,不愿有许多纷争和分争。
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
没有焦虑和疾病,我就像一艘没有舵的船。
A person worries about the past, is upset about the present, and fears the future.
一个人担心过去,担心现在,害怕未来。
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
焦虑不会使明天的悲伤化为乌有,只会使今天的力量化为乌有。
I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
据我所知,没有哪个女人不为穿泳衣而焦虑。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
他既将一切虚空的忧虑消除,将一切的信心投靠神,就必大有平安。
In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.
与人生这个阶段令人羡慕的想法形成鲜明对比的是,我们听到人们对变老感到高度焦虑,对健康、机动性、设施的可及性、简单的日常护理和关注感到焦虑。
I'm anxious by nature, I think.
我想我生性焦虑。
It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.
这是一种完全不同的焦虑。但是,做一名戏剧工作的好处是,一旦事情开始发展,你就必须随波逐流,这是不可阻挡的。
Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
职业母亲通常会证明,当她们离开孩子时,她们会感到内疚;当她们不工作时,她们会感到内疚。忠诚的父亲们当然非常想念他们的孩子,但这似乎与折磨女性的那种折磨人的原始焦虑不同。
I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.
我有时想,最理智的人,那些非常平衡、非常快乐的人,可能比其他人的成就要低。我的非理性恰好是恐惧或焦虑。