A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
知识分子
Intellectuals
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
知识分子就是不知道如何停放自行车的人。
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
一个人越不聪明，他就越觉得这个世界不神秘。
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
据我所知，福音书中没有一个词赞扬智慧。
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
如今，大多数知识分子对任何涉及遗传学的解释都有恐惧感。
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
我的父母是自由派知识分子，但他们甚至希望我呆在家里照顾弟弟妹妹，做家务。
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
知识分子认为思想比价值更重要。也就是说，自己的想法和别人的价值观。
We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
我们没有多少知识分子能在国际上为我们说话。我们没有在阿拉伯世界之外得到认可、尊重和爱戴的作家。
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
知识分子试图继续前进。但是他们的处境非常困难。那些有勇气表达反对意见的人往往付出了很高的代价。
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
大自然告诉我们，随着智慧的增长，人们承受痛苦的能力也会增强，只有拥有最高程度的智慧，痛苦才会达到顶峰。
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
我知道我有学位。为什么这意味着我必须与知识分子共度一生?我有救生证书，但是我不会晚上穿着睡衣潜水去捡橡皮砖。