A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
出现
Appear
I don't like the way I ever appear on TV.
我不喜欢我在电视上的样子。
It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
看来我命中注定要做些什么;我要活下去。
Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
如今,那些做对的人会得到回报,而做错的人则会得到回报。
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
如果有机会出现,不要拉下窗帘。
It appears that you were meant to be mine only for a little while.
看来你注定只属于我一小段时间。
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
希望在愚人中间显得聪明的人,在聪明人中间显得愚蠢。
There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
现在对能把错误变成正确的人有一种需求。
The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
浪漫小说最早出现的形式是一种粗鄙的诗歌。
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
没有什么能阻止一个人表现得自然,因为他想表现得自然。
If you stare at this and stroke you chin you may appear intelligent and cultured.
如果你盯着这个,抚摸你的下巴,你可能会显得聪明和有教养。
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
在我看来,生命太短暂了,不能把时间花在抚育仇恨或记录错误上。
It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
值得注意的是,当这篇文章的任何部分显得枯燥时,其中都有一个设计。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
与其把我们的命运与那些比我们幸运的人相比,我们应该把它与我们绝大多数同胞的命运相比。这样看来,我们似乎属于特权阶层。
Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.
我所写的一切直到后来才成为传记。我经常说我从来没有写过我所经历的事情。当然,这不是真的。但我一点也不熟悉。也许这是因为我必须处于昏迷状态才能写作。如果它看起来很熟悉,我不会。
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
诀窍在于矛盾——把你的故事翻出来。现在,如果它看起来是完全正常的,然后突然由内而外变成了一个完全不同的东西,那么写起来很有趣。
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
如果星星每千年只出现一个晚上,人们会多么惊奇和凝视。
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
可以说,在一定程度上可以肯定的是,并不是所有的眼睛看到的东西都像它看起来的那样。