A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
房子
House
I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore.
我做过很多零工，但我想我可能会成为一名消防员，因为你可以看到你工作的结果。你到了那里，发现一所房子着火了。你走了，再也没有火了。
To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.
到朋友家去，如果你愿意退休，你必须事事承认，事事佩服;你们要谨守所当得的价银，吃那当赞美的，吃那当赞美的。
My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs... I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.
我的房子很严肃。里面有很多古董，我决定让它更有生气的方法是，我把它搭配成非常鲜艳的颜色和虫子……我觉得它们很漂亮。我认为它们很迷人，很自然。
I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.
我做家务，但我没有得到零用钱。我洗碗扫地……我经常扫地，我妈妈总是希望我拿把扫帚，然后一直在地板上昂首阔步。
Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.
一旦你明白了这一点，你就能让你的房间充满活力;你可以和你的家人一起设计房子;给你的孩子一个花园;你可以工作的地方;美丽的露台，您可以坐在那里梦想。
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
我最早的记忆是梦一般的:在一个小果园或花园里，我相信，是父亲搀扶着我;有一群成年人，其中有我的母亲，这群人正在果园里慢慢地走着，似乎朝着房子走去。
People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.
人们总是问我和波西亚我们是不是要生孩子。我们想过了。我们喜欢在孩子们吃过饭、洗过澡之后和他们在一起。但我们最终决定不要我们自己的孩子。我们家的玻璃太多了。
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
房子必须让每个人都满意，而艺术作品则不然。这件作品是艺术家的私事。房子不是。
I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.
除了工作，我生活中什么都没有。我被它迷住了。我只有在迫不得已的时候才会离开家。
A plaster house, a horse at grass, a friend in words, are all mere glass.
灰泥房子，草地上的马，言语上的朋友，都不过是玻璃。
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
凡灵都造自己的房屋，我们可以凭房屋猜测居民。
Every man is master in his own house.
每个人都是自己家里的主人。
My house is completely organized from my closets to my drawers.
我的房子从壁橱到抽屉都井井有条。