A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人类
Human
I'm terribly human.
我非常人。
I became a human placebo.
我成了人类的安慰剂。
To err is human, to purr feline.
人非圣贤,孰能无过。
Every human being makes mistakes.
每个人都会犯错。
There's no map to human behaviour.
没有人类行为的地图。
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
人非圣贤,孰能无过;宽恕的,是神。
The march of the human mind is slow.
人类思想的发展是缓慢的。
Never underestimate human stupidity.
永远不要低估人类的愚蠢。
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
艺术是如此博大,人类的智慧是如此狭隘。
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
人性本身并不邪恶。
Perfect is boring, human is beautiful.
完美是无聊的,人是美丽的。
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
人的声音是灵魂的器官。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
写小说使我对人的一生中未知的东西产生了一种持久的敬意,让我有了一种去哪里寻找线索、如何追随、如何联系的感觉,在错综复杂的世界中找到一条清晰的线。
Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?
难道这就是发生在人类身上的事情——一种心甘情愿的任性行为,无视人类的一切价值,而这些价值在一百多万年的时间里是如此难以赢得,而且是按照理性来构建的吗?
Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.
相对主义应该在损害基本人权的地方受到挑战,因为如果我们认为人类应该处于社会的中心,每个人的权利都应该得到尊重,那么我们就不是相对主义者。
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
在每个人的生活中,总有那么一段时间,我们内心的火焰熄灭了。然后,它会因为与另一个人的相遇而燃烧起来。我们都应该感谢那些重新点燃内在精神的人。
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
所有神话都不仅仅是幻想,而是随着时间的推移,由于人类经验的积累而获得而不是失去价值。