A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
幽默
Humour
Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.
保持冷静,等待机会。
Red sky at night, the city's alight.
夜晚的天空红彤彤的,城市的灯火辉煌。
I am a drinker with writing problems.
我是个有写作问题的酒鬼。
Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?
女佣难道不是终极艺术批评家吗?
Write like no one's going to read it !
写得好像没人会读一样!
Time flies when you grow fangs and fur.
当你长出尖牙和皮毛时,时间过得很快。
What's not to like about weightlifting?
举重有什么不好呢?
Normal is just a setting on your dryer.
正常只是你烘干机上的一个设置。
The human body is the best work of art.
人体是最好的艺术品。
Achieve everything and fail at the rest.
完成每件事,然后在剩下的事情上失败。
We are only as good as our last decision.
我们最后的决定有多好就有多好。
Without desire, one is a walking cadaver.
没有欲望,人只是行尸走肉。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
人们很快就会厌倦不无聊的事情,但不会厌倦无聊的事情。
Don't tell me I should only talk to people with a high influence score, or I'll Klout you.
别跟我说我应该只跟影响力高的人说话,否则我就揍你。
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
戒烟是世界上最容易的事情。我知道,因为我已经做过几千次了。
He raised his sunglasses and saw a young woman in an impossibly brief dress with an improbably welcoming smile.
他抬起太阳镜,看见一个年轻女子穿着一件短得令人难以置信的衣服,脸上带着令人难以置信的欢迎微笑。
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。
It was the list of activities thing. Like the menu with price, only I'm not the restaurant; I'm the meal.
那是活动列表的事情。喜欢有价格的菜单,只是我不是餐厅;我这顿饭。