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接受
Accept
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
后来,亲爱的姨妈常常问我,为什么我从来没有告诉过别人我是如何被对待的。孩子们所讲的不比动物多多少,因为他们所接受的是永恒不变的。
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
你进入一种受控制的被动状态,你放松你的控制,接受即使你宣称的意图是证明上帝对人的方式是正当的,你可能最终会让你的读者对撒旦更感兴趣。
A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?
生活的大部分时间都在处理你的诅咒,处理你收到的不太好的牌。它会让你变成一个怪物吗?或者你能以某种方式缓和它,或者接受它并向另一个方向发展吗?
When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.
年轻时,我瘦得像根栏杆。随着年龄的增长,我的体重增加了。在所有这些角色中,我一直爱着自己。我总是告诉人们,我的精神的一部分就是接受真实的自己。
I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.
我只是想再次建立动力。保持工作是一回事,保持良好的工作是另一回事。但如果不成功,那就顺其自然吧。正如道家所说,学会接受你无法改变的东西。
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
据我们所知,任何一种治安官的任命方式、普选、抽签或出身都不能保证他比他的邻居们更有智慧。
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
如果一个人认为一个人所做的一切都应该是正确和可靠的,即使是确定一个关税税率也必须是合乎道德的,那么他拒绝接受这一观点,认为这是一个处于权力地位的人所面临的最大危险。
When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.
当我接受一个角色时,我觉得作为一个艺术家,我必须完全服从导演的指导。虽然我希望能被听到,被鼓励,被尊重,但说到底,这是导演想要的。
I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.
我想你应该意识到,一旦你结了婚,不管是什么,你都要面对它。你不一定要接受它,但你必须处理它,尽你最大的努力让它为你工作,为你们两个。
You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.
你看,在我的教学中——我总是说我已经做了一百年了,我有成千上万的学生——我总是说,不要因为所谓的意外事故而跪倒在地,我的意思是说,你不必为此负责。
I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.
我不担心,因为我们都在变老。如果我是唯一一个我会担心的人。但是我们大家处境相同,我所有的朋友都跟我一起去。我们都在走向老年。我们不知道还有多少年。我们必须接受它。
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
为了说明我的意思,一个灵巧的舞者可能与那个特定群体中的其他人完全一致,同时揭示出舞蹈的气质、节奏或技术上的差异;她可能措辞、强调或实际上解释不同。
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I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.
我宁愿看到人们怀疑什么是真实的,也不愿看到人们接受什么不是真实的。
Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.
每个人都在努力成为一个怪人。当你还是个孩子的时候,想要融入社会是很困难的;然后你长大成人,你想,‘我要做我自己,他们要么接受,要么不接受。“但是你知道吗?”我喜欢我自己,这是最重要的。
The best way to escape from the past is not to avoid or forget it, but to accept and forgive it.
逃避过去的最好方法不是逃避或忘记它,而是接受和原谅它。
Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.
明星不是一种职业;这是一个意外。
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
上帝,赐予我们恩典,让我们平静地接受无法改变的事情,赐予我们勇气去改变应该改变的事情,赐予我们智慧去区分两者。
I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.
我做了一个糟糕的电视试播节目,剧本写得很糟糕,也很愚蠢,这对我来说是一个转折点,我决定永远不要因为我需要钱就接受一份工作。