A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
想法
Idea
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
任何伟大的思想在其诞生之初都不可能在法律范围之内。怎么会在法律范围内呢?定律是静止的。法律是固定的。法律是一个车轮，把我们所有人束缚在一起，无论条件、地点或时间。
You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
你知道吗，当你年轻的时候，你在高中看一场戏剧，所有的男人都是白发苍苍，他们想成为老年人，却不知道那是什么样子?只是反过来太蠢了。
People think coming in under the radar is like being a fighter pilot and actually coming in under the radar. It's a completely ridiculous idea to come in under the radar. It's the Olympics; everyone is on the radar here.
人们认为进入雷达系统就像成为一名战斗机飞行员，实际上进入雷达系统。在雷达的监视下是一个完全荒谬的想法。这是奥运会;每个人都在这里。
Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.
科学家确实站在巨人的肩膀上，就像作家一样。相反，在艺术方面，我们确实有所发现。我们确实在改进我们的工具。所以我反对，或者至少是玩弄，艺术永远不会进步的观点。
Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.
小学生和老年人喜欢植树的想法。对孩子们来说，橡子长成橡树是件很有趣的事，对老年人来说，这是一种遗产。种植一棵树的行为并不那么困难。
I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.
我认同超人。我是被收养的，我是独生子女，我喜欢他来自另一个世界的想法，他是最终的移民。他有这一切的超能力，并且有他的义。
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
母亲是我生活中的主导力量。她对教育有一个非常明确的想法，那就是:你应该对一切都了如指掌。很简单。没有排他性，也没有真正的判断。
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.
版权的概念在古代并不存在，当时的作家经常在非小说类作品中大量抄袭其他作家的作品。这种做法是有用的，而且是许多作家的作品得以保存下来的唯一方法，甚至部分保存下来。
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?
我们从哪里得到这样一个疯狂的想法:为了让孩子们做得更好，首先我们必须让他们感觉更糟?回想一下你最近一次感到羞辱或受到不公平待遇的情形。你想合作还是做得更好?
No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.
不，我喜欢有人改变的想法。作为一个演员，这是你一直在寻找的东西。他是这样的人，一开始很聪明、开朗、自信，然后一切都从他身上消失了。这是一次美妙的旅行。
I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.
我喜欢在家里买东西。这让我觉得很正常。我喜欢和家人朋友在一起的家的感觉，也喜欢探索的感觉。我想这两个可能是我最大的兴趣。
Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.
有一次我签了唱片合同，我把那些还没完成的歌拿了过来，也许它们是个好主意，也许不是。我把它们带进工作室，冲洗出来。他们活了过来，他们进化了……他们好了。
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Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
惠特尼想要消除这样一种想法，即在语言的例子中，我们面对的是一种天生的能力;事实上，社会制度与自然制度是对立的。
I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.
我喜欢人们听到我的东西，如果它在商业上成功了，这是一个很好的信号，它被听到了。
There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.
有一种接受所有人的想法;没有被排斥的感觉。
Be your own heroine. The only thing you need to be saved from is the idea that you need to be saved.
做你自己的英雄。你唯一需要被拯救的是你需要被拯救的想法。
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
拥有知识但缺乏清晰表达的能力，并不比没有任何想法好。
All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.
我想用一首歌来表达我的想法。