A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人类
Human
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
人类对自己评价如此之低的一个原因是,它从作家那里获得了如此多的智慧。
The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.
创造奇迹者的方法是把人类所有的行为看成两件事:要么是爱,要么是对爱的呼唤。
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
我从未见过像人一样说话的驴子,但我见过许多像驴子一样说话的人。
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
烹饪的艺术,当完全掌握,是一种人类的能力,只有好的东西可以说。
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
如果人权不能像保护我们喜欢的人一样保护我们不喜欢的人,那么它就不值得这个名字。
Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.
我们中的一些人只会在我们脆弱的时候表现出我们的情感。但这正是我们人类的特点。
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
思想是一切事物的伟大杠杆;人的思想是最终回答人的目的的过程。
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
人类的大部分痛苦是不必要的。它是自我创造的,只要你的生活中存在着未被观察到的思想。
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
除了孔雀鱼喜欢吃自己的孩子外,人类是唯一故意生孩子的动物。
Write about the experiences that made you feel human. And whatever happens, please do continue to live and write.
写下那些让你觉得自己是人类的经历。无论发生什么,请继续生活和写作。
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
语言是我们的生命。我们是人类,因为我们使用语言。所以我认为当我们使用更少的语言时,我们就更不像人类了。
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
语言是一种考古工具……我们所说的语言是人类努力和历史的全部重写本。
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The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
和平宣传的方法旨在通过辩论建立和平学说,并在一般情况下创造一种有利于和平的感觉,但这些方法似乎没有达到人类行动的源泉,也没有处理他们试图改变的行为的原因。
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
文学是一种人类活动,它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
如果我们能把一个人送上月球,并对人类基因组进行测序,我们应该能够设计出类似于一个通用数字公共图书馆的东西。
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
对于两个人的灵魂来说,有什么比在无言的、无法言说的回忆中感到他们是连在一起的——彼此加强——彼此在一起更伟大的事情呢?
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
朋友,就是那些让我们能够坦然做自己的人。
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
从前,有一位王后,她有一个非常丑、非常畸形的儿子。不过,他出生时的一位仙女说,尽管如此,他还是会非常和蔼可亲的,因为他有非常好的判断力。