A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
幽默
Humour
If you can’t be of good character, write a good character.
如果你的性格不好，那就写一个好性格。
I love making observations. That one is a classic example.
我喜欢观察。这是一个经典的例子。
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
广告——奉承和威胁的明智结合。
If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.
如果扁平感很有趣，那么餐盘也会很有趣。
I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they.
我觉得自己像个动物，而动物不知道罪，对吧?
We may have the same dreams, but never the same nightmares.
我们可能会做同样的梦，但绝不会做同样的噩梦。
You can't always be right, but you can be wrong a lot less.
你不可能总是对的，但你可以少犯很多错误。
They took off running like a couple of spastic marathoners.
他们像两个痉挛的马拉松运动员一样开始跑步。
Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.
利蒂希娅!什么一个名字。在吃沙拉和打喷嚏之间。
When it comes to wine and buttocks, the redder, the better.
说到葡萄酒和臀部，越红越好。
look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
在每件事情中寻找荒谬，你会发现它。
Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else.
把你的思想从常规中解放出来，把你的大脑放在别的地方。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
我不懂语法规则……如果你试图说服人们做某事，或者买东西，在我看来，你应该使用他们的语言，他们每天使用的语言，他们思考的语言。我们尽量用方言写作。
They are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.
她们跟别的姑娘一样，又傻又无知;可是丽萃比她姐姐们还伶俐。
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
我恨人类，因为我认为自己是他们中最好的一个，我知道我有多坏。
I don't believe in ghosts but they blindly believe in me.
我不相信鬼，但他们盲目地相信我。
A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?
一项新的研究表明，严重的恐惧症会加速衰老。但如果我最大的恐惧是衰老呢?
Going down in history is a dead end pursuit.
载入史册是一种死路一条的追求。