A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
发明
Invent
You must invent because you enjoy it.
你必须创新,因为你喜欢创新。
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
预测未来最好的方法就是创造未来。
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
你必须发明你自己的游戏,教我们老游戏怎么玩。
I hope that someday they invent a car that runs on inappropriate thoughts.
我希望有一天他们能发明出一种用不恰当的想法驱动的汽车。
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
没有人注定要记住或发明他是如何花掉每一分钱的。
I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.
我总是开玩笑说,我想发明一种舒适的高跟鞋,然后退休。
We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.
如果我们没有联合国,我们将不得不创建联合国,这不是一个原创的想法。
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
想要发动战争的统治者非常清楚,他们必须找到或创造出第一个受害者。
Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, colours, sounds and work that nourish your soul.
创造你的世界。让你周围的人、颜色、声音和工作滋养你的灵魂。
If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.
如果你想发明一些新东西,你会遇到很多令人沮丧的地方,大多数人都会放弃。
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
我的听力很差。我无意中帮助发明和改进了一种音乐,使其主要支持者失聪。
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
当涉及到制造恐怖时,人类的思维受到了足够的启发;只有当它试图创造一个天堂时,它才显得土里土气。
KEEP EXPLORING
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
成为一名优秀的摄影师需要很大的想象力。成为一名画家,你不需要太多的想象力,因为你可以创造东西。但在摄影中,一切都是那么平凡;在你学会看到不平凡之前,你需要仔细观察。
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
鉴于外部现实是虚构的,作者的角色几乎是多余的。他不需要虚构,因为小说已经存在了。