A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
地面
Ground
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候,却给他们插花。
I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.
在牙买加之外的旅行让我更加开放。它帮助我成长为一个不属于我的元素的人;一个人在一个陌生的地方遇见别人。
I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.
我想换屁股。它挂的时间有点长。上帝不允许我长大后会是什么样子。它可能在我身后的地上拖着。
The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.
如果学生们想回来拿着专业学位工作,硅谷的经济就需要增长。我们需要发展更多,创造更多的机会。
The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
作为一个艺术家,我成长得越快,我就越觉得自己像我的父亲。我越多样化,我就越像我的父亲,这是真实的他。
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
我越来越尊重事实,越来越不尊重理论。在我看来,事实是一件伟大的事情;一个句子,如果不是上帝印的,那么至少是魔鬼印的。
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
这不是一片几英亩的土地,而是我们正在捍卫的事业,无论我们是在一场战斗中击败敌人,还是一步步地击败敌人,结果都是一样的。
The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
地面的膨胀会让你下沉,也会让你上升。当然,这些都是陈词滥调,我有时对一个人能逃脱多少惩罚很感兴趣。
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
在人类所知之外,还有第五维度。它是一个和空间一样广阔,和无限一样永恒的维度。它是光明与黑暗、科学与迷信之间的中间地带。
My feet never touched the ground. Lots of good groups with crazy and unique images. It was wild. I spent all of my time doing gigs, TV appearances, interviews, or recording. I could write a book - and probably will.
我的脚从未着地。很多优秀的团体都有疯狂而独特的图片。这是野生的。我把所有的时间都花在了演出、电视节目、采访或录音上。我可以写一本书——也许会。
The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.
未来的地面战斗将在空中战斗之前进行。这将决定哪些参赛者必须承受操作和战术上的劣势,并在整个战斗中被迫采用折衷的解决方案。
One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
一个是你必须花时间,很多时间,让一个想法从内部产生。第二点是,当你签约某件事时,会有信任的问题,深深的信任,就像弦乐四重奏的成员必须彼此信任一样。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
去西部吧,年轻人,和这个国家一起长大。
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
热情是一座火山,山顶上长不出优柔寡断的草。
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
慢跑是非常有益的。它对你的腿和脚都有好处。这对地面也很好。如果觉得需要的话。
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
我希望我们的智慧会随着我们的力量而增长,并教导我们,我们越少使用我们的力量,它就会越强大。
I don't want to fall to the ground i want to fall in love.
我不想掉到地上,我想坠入爱河。
Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
有人说,人最不愿意变老的就是愤怒。