A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
习惯
Habit
We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.
我们从经验中看到，如果我们养成了经常在同一条路上走的习惯，我们就能够一边走一边想其他事情，而不去注意我们的脚步。
Gertie recommended her to adopt the habit of not magnifying grievances; if you wanted to view trouble, you could take opera-glasses, but you should be careful to hold them the wrong way round.
格蒂建议她养成不夸大委屈的习惯;如果你想看到麻烦，你可以带着望远镜，但要小心拿反了。
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
习惯是第二天性，它能破坏第一天性。但什么是自然?为什么习惯不是自然的?我很担心，自然本身只是第一个习惯，就像习惯是第二天性一样。
Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud, and, when you have found it, continue to look at it, rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.
养成寻找乌云背后的一线光明的习惯，当你找到它的时候，继续看它，而不是看中间的铅灰色。它将帮助你克服许多困难。
Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.
思想的习惯延续了几个世纪;虽然一个健康的大脑可能会拒绝它不再相信的学说，但它会继续感受到与那个学说有关的相同的情感。
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
我照例在晴朗的天空中观看星星，忽然看见一颗不寻常的新星，比其他的星星更明亮。那地方以前从来没有一颗星星。
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
任何经常重复的行为很快就会形成一种习惯;如果习惯得以养成，力量就会稳步增长。起初，它可能只是一张蜘蛛网，很容易被冲破，但如果不加以抵制，它很快就会把我们用铁链捆在一起。
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。
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。
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
我们为什么要去想那些可爱的东西呢?因为思考决定生活。把生活归咎于环境是一种普遍的习惯。环境改变生命，但并不支配生命。灵魂比周围的环境更强大。
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
自然选择从来没有让一块没有支撑的石头向下移动而不是向上移动成为自然的一种习惯。它并不适用于无机自然的任何部分，甚至在有机生命的现象中也非常有限。
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
常识是世界上分布得最均匀的东西，因为每个人都认为自己很有天赋，即使是那些在其他事情上最难满足的人，也没有比他们已经拥有的东西更渴望得到常识的习惯。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.
我保证，养成打开计时器的习惯，会让你免于厨房里的许多灾难。
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。
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。
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。
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
事情开始是希望，结束是习惯。