A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
客人
Guests
Fish and guests smell at three days old.
鱼放三天发臭，客住三天讨嫌。
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
客人就像鱼一样，过了三天就开始发臭。
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
现在买好酒只需要钱。给客人上菜是疲劳的表现。
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
因为，不管我们怎么对自己说，从生到死，我们都是同一张桌子共进晚餐的客人，而这张桌子是我们没有铺开的。
Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!
别让他们看到你流汗。如果客人认为你工作太辛苦而没能为他们做晚饭，他们会感到内疚——你当然有这种感觉!
With guests who are 'in the middle of the fight,' we're able to hear their point-of-view on the topics, as well as advance our own feelings.
和那些“处于争吵之中”的客人在一起，我们能够听到他们对话题的看法，也能增进我们自己的感情。
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.
甜点可能是这顿饭最重要的部分，因为它是客人们在昏倒在桌子上之前记得的最后一件事。
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
我的许多客人都觉得，法语让他们进入了一个更有教养、更聪明、也更文明的世界，有规则可循。