A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
习惯
Habit
Some think they are preserving tradition when they are only perpetuating a habit.
有些人认为他们是在保留传统，而实际上他们只是在延续一种习惯。
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
用死人的骨头打活人是神学家的老习惯。
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
习惯的枷锁太弱了，只有当它太强大而不能被打破时，你才能感觉到它。
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
婚姻是一件好事，但我认为把它作为一种习惯是错误的。
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
每一个侵略国家都有一种习惯，即声称自己是在采取守势。
Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
他们知道我有揉耳垂的习惯，我从两岁就开始揉耳垂了。
We have a habit in this country of correcting things just as they are about to correct themselves.
在这个国家，我们有一种习惯，就是在事情即将自我纠正的时候纠正它们。
Girls have a bad habit of holding on for too long, guys have a bad habit of letting go too easily.
女孩的坏习惯是坚持太久，男孩的坏习惯是轻易放手。
The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
读书太多而用脑太少的人会养成懒惰的思维习惯。
As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
随着年龄的增长，我很遗憾地说，一种令人讨厌的思考习惯似乎占据了我的思想。
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
戒烟是我做过的最容易的事;我应该知道，因为我已经做过一千次了。
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
我的习惯是，与其说我在观察一件礼物的本质，不如说我在观察它被赋予的精神。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Habit is a great deadener.
习惯是伟大的终结者。
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
像孩子一样的男人不是发育受阻的人;相反，他给了自己一个继续发展的机会，即使大多数成年人早已将自己包裹在中年习惯和习俗的茧中。
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。
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
生活已经养成了不站着结婚的习惯。你得像找到它一样骑着它。你得跟着改变。如果一天过去了，你的一些旧观念还是没有改变，那就像挤死牛一样。
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
习惯如果不加以抵制，很快就会变成必需。
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
我们想象自己想要逃离自私和平庸的生活，但我们却拼命地抓住枷锁不放。