A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
冲动
Impulse
A first impulse was never a crime.
第一次冲动从来不是犯罪。
I've always had this impulse to be destructive.
我总是有这种破坏性的冲动。
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
让第一个冲动过去,等待第二个。
If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.
如果我真的有做父母的冲动,我会领养——或者领养。
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
请允许我们稍微耽搁一下;冲动在任何事情上都是无用的仆人。
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
从剧院开始,我就有一种冲动,想要尽我所能去做这件事。
There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.
我总是有一种创造的冲动,但我从来没有感到扎根于任何东西。
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
当头脑处于怀疑之中时,它会被一种轻微的冲动左右驱使。
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
为我写作的部分冲动实际上是想远离我自己。
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
很少有人,不成熟或成熟的人,从来没有想过要假装自己是某个人或其他什么东西的冲动。
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
我梦想的冲动被经验慢慢地击败了。现在它又冒了出来,我渴望着书,渴望着新的观察方法。
The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.
把经验转换成一组彼此之间有语法关系的单词的冲动是我生命中最基本的、持续的冲动。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.
很多人离开家去经历有趣的冒险,或艰难的冒险,他们的冲动是马上写下来。真正起作用的是对所发生的事情有一些看法。
Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.
由于没有任何撤退的正式命令,剩下的几个组织屈服于放弃战场的普遍冲动。军官和士兵被一种想法所控制,那就是尽可能远离敌人。