A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
习惯
Habit
Habit will reconcile us to everything but change.
习惯能使我们适应一切，但改变除外。
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
生存是一种我不会绝望地养成的习惯。
If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
如果成功是一种习惯，那就很难养成。
I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.
我没有带男中音去吃晚饭的习惯。
Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.
今天的坏习惯比明天更容易改掉。
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
预防坏习惯比改掉坏习惯容易。
Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.
你知道，事情总有解决的习惯。最终。
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
如果你总是这样做，那很可能是错误的。
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters
习惯不是最好的仆人，就是最坏的主人
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
引用，就像吸烟一样，是我的恶习。
Habit – The contemptible, gazed at too long, becomes temptible.
习惯——可鄙的人，如果长时间地凝视，就会变得可鄙。
A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
一颗钉子被另一颗钉子钉出来;习惯战胜习惯。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
我们养成了在别人面前乔装打扮的习惯，以至于我们最终在自己面前乔装打扮起来。
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
任何一本书，只要能帮助孩子养成阅读的习惯，使阅读成为他内心深处持续不断的需求之一，对他都是有好处的。
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
动力是你开始的动力。习惯是你前进的动力。
A tail behind, a trunk in front, Complete the usual elephant. The tail in front, the trunk behind, Is what you very seldom find. If you for specimens should hunt With trunks behind and tails in front, That hunt would occupy you long The force of habit is so strong.
尾巴在后面，树干在前面， 完成通常的大象。 尾巴在前面，树干在后， 是你很少能找到的。 如果你是为了标本而打猎的话 树干在后面，尾巴在前面， 那狩猎会占用你很长时间 习惯的力量是如此强大。
The greatest difficulty in the breaking of habits lies in their having come to seem the natural way of reacting, so that even though we tell ourselves that we should break the habit, we do not essentially believe that we should.
打破习惯的最大困难在于它们似乎已成为一种自然的反应方式，因此，即使我们告诉自己应该改掉这个习惯，但实际上我们并不认为我们应该这样做。
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
每一年改掉一个坏习惯，假以时日，我们中最坏的人也会变好。