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。
Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids.
因为我们这一代人等了这么久才要孩子,我们觉得我们已经“发现”了女性几千年来一直在做的事情。我不抱任何幻想,认为自己会和普通的职业母亲一样。我不想证明什么——我只是想要孩子。
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。
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。
Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.
意识到这一点,我知道房间的实际空间可以被打破,并通过在房间构成的关键节点植入真实光线(电光)的幻觉来玩。
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.
人际关系就是一切。 宇宙中的一切之所以存在,只是因为它是存在的 和其他一切的关系。没有任何事物是孤立存在的。 我们必须停止假装我们是可以独立完成任务的个体。
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。