A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
已知
Known
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
如果没有战争，就不会有伟大的将军;如果没有伟大的时刻，你就不会有伟大的政治家;如果林肯生活在和平时期，没有人会知道他的名字。
I've been known to turn up drunk at triathlons and do very well. I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.
大家都知道我在铁人三项比赛中喝醉了，而且表现得很好。我是那种比较冲动的人。一个朋友会告诉我一些即将发生的事情，也许是那个周末，通常我不会花太多心思去做这件事。
The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.
龚琳娜给了我人生中最快乐的五年时光，但仅此而已。作为那个给世界带来辉煌的人——听着，我的乔治叔叔什么都不出名。所以我想在这种情况下，情况并没有那么糟。
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是，这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦，我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里，每一种语言都是沉默的，在无能为力中保持着平静。
Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.
米奇和我认识很长时间了，我们都很高兴能有机会在人生的这个阶段扮演我们从未真正有机会扮演的角色。这是一个伟大的礼物。此外，我们足够聪明去欣赏它。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Sometimes the people whom we've known for only a short amount of time have a bigger impact on us than those we've known forever.
有时候，那些我们认识很短时间的人对我们的影响比那些我们认识很久的人更大。
If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.
如果我年轻时经历过许多烦恼，我也经历过许多欢乐。
I've seen it all, done it all, known it all.
我看到了这一切，做了这一切，知道这一切。
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
最好的开场白是这样说的:巴尔蒂斯是一位默默无闻的画家。现在让我们来看看他的画。
I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
多年来我就知道，怨恨不会伤害我们怨恨的人，但却会伤害我们。
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
文学和蝴蝶是人类最甜蜜的两种激情。