A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
草
Grass
Grass grows not upon the highway.
草不长在公路上。
Grass is greener in other pastures.
其他牧场的草比较绿。
The laggard cow gets the sour grass.
落后者吃不到好草。
Grass fears the frost, frost fears the sun.
草怕霜，霜怕太阳。
The grass isn't always greener on the other side!
这山望着那山高，这山望着那山高。
I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
我用我的想象力把草变成我想要的任何颜色。
I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'
我问服务员:“这牛奶新鲜吗?”他说，“女士，三个小时前是草。”
Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
任何在电视上看高尔夫球的人都会喜欢看草地上长出的草。
From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.
从我们的广播箱里你根本看不到草。它只是一张人性的地毯。
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
我必须生活在沙漠中，才能充分认识到青草在绿色沟渠中的价值。
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
世界上没有一根草是不让我们快乐的，世界上没有一种颜色不是让我们快乐的。
It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.
并不是另一边的草更绿，而是你不可能同时站在草坪的两边。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?
显然，会议可以在任何地方举行，看到你的同事光着脚懒洋洋地躺在草地上不是很好吗?
They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
他们攻击我们，是因为我们有一场真正的草根人民革命，有各种计划，有团结，有联合，我们跨越了种族界限。
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.
圣经告诉我们，神会满足我们所有的需要。他喂养空中的飞鸟，又用百合花的华美给草披上。何况照他的形像造的我们呢。我们唯一关心的是顺服天父，把结果留给他。
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
机器人抓不住生命。他们不能。他们没有任何依靠——没有灵魂，没有本能。草比它们更有生存的意志。
But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
但最糟糕的是，根据一句老话，草长了，马就饿死了，但有钱人是新斯科舍省的人。这些可能会做得非常好。