A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
幻想
Illusions
However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.
然而,一个人不能把一夸脱放在一品脱的杯子里。
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
没有幻想的人是很难受伤害的。
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
伟大的幻想并不等同于伟大的幻想。
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
可以说,当一个时代的基本幻想破灭时,这个时代就结束了。
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
我父亲是谁并不重要;重要的是我记得他是谁。
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
我能想到的最令人愉快的事莫过于追求快乐的生活。
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
对他的狗来说,每个人都是拿破仑;因此,狗一直很受欢迎。
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
青春是一种幻觉,是那些失去青春的人的幻觉。
How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.
令人不安的是,我们的幻觉往往是我们最重要的信念。
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
当心,大人,那边的东西不是巨人,而是风车。
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
幻觉是事实,而不是错误;错误的是基于它的判断。
As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.
作为一个组织者,我从世界的现状出发,而不是我想要的样子。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
现代性的挑战在于不抱幻想,不幻灭。
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.
我对我的艺术没有幻想。我是公众造就我的,因此,我不太可能忘记我欠他们的债。
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
幻想的枕头就像暴风雪中的雪花一样多。我们从一个梦醒到另一个梦。
I've looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.
我现在从两个方面来看待生活 从赢和输,还是以某种方式 我记得这是人生的幻觉 我真的一点也不了解生活。
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
当你的朋友要求你对他们诚实时,不要相信他们。他们真正想要的是保持对自己的好感。
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
装饰你的家。它给人一种错觉,认为你的生活比实际生活更有趣。