A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人类
Human
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
民族就像植物和人类一样生长。如果发展受阻,它们就会变得渺小和黯然失色。
To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.
如果你同时在做你的工作,被人看作是一个人,这绝对不是消极的,一点也不是。
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
只有勇敢的人才懂得宽恕;这是人性所能达到的最优雅、最慷慨的美德境界。
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
恰当地说,所有人类的法律都只是宣告性的;他们对原始正义的实质没有权力。
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
小说是迄今为止人类表达的最高形式。为什么?因为它无法做到绝对。
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
拒绝改变的人是腐朽的建筑师。人类唯一拒绝进步的机构是墓地。
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
大多数进化的血统,无论是人类还是其他物种,在面临灭绝的威胁时,都不会做任何特别的事情来避免它。
Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.
不要只依赖技术。技术可以帮助合格的、训练有素的人,但不能取代他。
The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
狗对生活兴趣的需求几乎与人类无异,但它的预见能力却不如人类。
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
人性的因素,人性的缺陷,人性的高贵——这些都是象棋比赛输赢的原因。
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
我认为这是不公平的,但是他们有权利像容易犯错的、被弄得一团糟的人类一样不公平;这是人类的状况。
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
一棵树对着天空有着和人一样的兴趣,一样的性格,一样的表情。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
All human beings are also dream beings dreaming ties all mankind together.
所有的人都是梦想的人,梦想把全人类联系在一起。
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。
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
因为在人类变化和进步的伟大空间里,有一段短暂的时间,某些人类的普遍目标在他身上得到了令人满意的体现。
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
有两件事是无限的:宇宙和人类的愚蠢;我对宇宙也不是很确定。