A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自己
Herself
Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.
一旦我嫁给费尔南多,我就成了隐形人。
My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.
我妈妈,她说,她可以自己锻炼。
Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.
写作对我来说不容易。它变得越来越难。
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
女人和男人一样,有资格从事生活中更繁重的工作。
My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.
我妈妈靠救济金独自抚养我们三个男孩。它并不比任何人的生活更糟。
I like a woman who takes care of herself - it says something about the way she'll care for me.
我喜欢能照顾自己的女人——这说明她会照顾我。
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.
我母亲是一个受过良好教育的人。她有非凡的词汇量。
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
建筑是一个人在空间中的位置。时尚是关于你如何把物体放在人身上。
I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.
我很幸运,现实生活中的妈妈对自己既有很强的幽默感,又有一种惊人的能力,如果话题太过贴近家庭,她就会完全否认。
It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.
觉得自己有权利变得美丽并不是虚荣心。女人被教导要觉得自己不够好,必须达到别人的标准。但我的目标是珍惜我自己。
I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy.
我喜欢低维护的女孩,但同时,有品位。她需要照顾好自己。但也要做一个不怕出汗的女孩,打篮球,所以如果她是假小子也很酷。
People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.
人们总是说,‘埃塔,你知道你有什么问题吗?你既不是鱼也不是鸟。没有地方可以折磨你。“当我去唱片店的时候,你可能会在不同的书架上找到我的一两张唱片。
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I don't have anything to hide. And for the record, I am not against plastic surgery. I believe that any woman that wants to do anything or fix anything that bothers her - if she's doing it for herself - I'm all for it.
我没有什么要隐瞒的。郑重声明,我并不反对整容手术。我相信任何一个女人,只要她想做任何事,或者想解决任何困扰她的问题——如果她是为了自己——我都支持。
There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!
上个星期天晚上,有一艘最奇怪的小船驶进了港口。我看了又看,笑了。她要渡过这片未知的水域,把自己关在我的房间里——我的女儿!啊,我的女儿!
If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
如果你的母亲不知道如何爱自己,或者你的父亲不知道如何爱自己,那么他们就不可能教你爱自己。他们尽了最大的努力学习他们小时候所学的知识。