A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
希腊人
Greeks
Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?
为什么希腊人总是开失败的餐馆?
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
戏剧这个词来自希腊。它的意思是看的地方。它是人们看到生活和社会状况真相的地方。
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
希腊人在他们的悲剧中庄严地说:“没有人在死前被称为幸福的;”对此，我还要补充一句:“没有人在死前被称为不幸福的。”
And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.
这是一种犯罪，因为历史上伟大的戏剧，可以追溯到古希腊，是每个人的遗产的一部分。就像在音乐中，贝多芬或莫扎特，那是每个人的遗产。
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
但保罗在传福音的时候，不但欠外邦人的债，也欠希利尼人的债。不但欠那轻易敌挡他的愚拙人的债，也欠那智慧人的债。