A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
身份
Identity
To create myself from nothing.
从无到有创造自己。
I can't give up my own identity.
我不能放弃自己的身份。
You are not who you think you are.
你不是你想的那样。
We all need a firm sense of identity.
我们都需要一种坚定的认同感。
I needed to be myself and find my own identity.
我需要做我自己，找到我自己的身份。
Sometimes it seems my identity’s a matter of opinion.
有时候，我的身份似乎只是个观点问题。
Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
告诉我你爱谁，我就会知道你是谁。
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
无所事事需要强烈的个人认同感。
Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.
也许如果我表现得足够好，我自己也会相信的。
Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.
我们真正的现实是我们与所有生命的同一性和统一性。
An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
一首无名的歌就像一个无名的孩子，它没有身份。
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
试图定义自己就像咬紧牙关一样。
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
你必须敢于冒着身份的风险去追求比你现在生活的更伟大的未来。
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
当你放弃国家权力时，你就放弃了自己的身份，这种想法毫无用处。不，实际上恰恰相反:如果以明智的方式来做，你就能获得与其他国家合作更好地解决国家问题的主权。
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
我们说我们想创造美、身份、品质和独特性。然而，也许事实上，我们拥有的这些城市是我们想要的。也许正是他们的无个性为生活提供了最好的环境。
In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
在我听过的每个故事中，好老师都有一个共同的特点:强烈的个人认同感渗透到他们的工作中。
I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.
我把自己的声音和能力看作是上天赐予我的礼物。我觉得我甚至不能为此邀功，但它在我的生活中如此重要。这就是我的生活。这是我的身份，这是一切。它给了我很大的快乐和使命感——我无法想象没有它的生活。
I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.
我休息了三年。我使自己与这个行业不同。找到了我的身份——有点……我还没毕业呢。我还没有接受正规的教育，但也许有一天。