A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人类
Human
Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.
人的一生充满了由反复的行为所发展出来的“三心”倾向的游戏。
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
我不是鸟;没有网能把我缠住;我是一个拥有独立意志的自由的人。
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
我相信,人类的心灵只关心一个时代的一般特征。
All dogs know what most humans don't that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
所有的狗都知道大多数人不知道的事情,那就是享受生活。
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
人类文明的奠基人是第一个以辱骂代替石头的人。
specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.
他们正在研究的样本是人类的生命,这就是为什么我要这么做,这就是为什么我喜欢它。
I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.
我从未经历过另一个人。我经历过我对他们的印象。
It's the nature of being human that, in our own blindness, we lash out and blind others.
这是人类的本性,在我们自己的盲目中,我们猛烈抨击并使他人盲目。
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors.
人类观点的历史不过是人类错误的历史。
The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.
另一半是要戏剧化我们现在仍然是“人”这个事实。或者可以。
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
首先,许多人类疾病即使不是由基因突变引起的,也会受到基因突变的影响。
Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth.
一个不在乎生死的人是世界上最危险的人。
KEEP EXPLORING
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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。
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
人体有两个末端:一个用来创造,另一个用来坐着。有时人们会适得其反。当这种情况发生时,他们需要从裤子的座位上踢一下。
People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.
人和松鼠是非常不同的。大多数人不会这么认为。但我发现有一种情况它们非常相似。那就是:当我开着车向他们驶来的时候。然后它们就很难区分了——尤其是如果人类是多毛的。
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
人体是人类灵魂的最佳写照。
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?