A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
土地
Land
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
世上有生者的土地,也有死者的土地,而那座桥就是爱,唯一的存在,唯一的意义。
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
这片土地是你的,这片土地是我的,当然,但是这个世界是由那些从来不听音乐的人统治的。
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
这片美丽的土地将永远、永远、永远不会再经历彼此的压迫。
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
旅行的全部目的不是踏上外国的土地;它最终是作为一个外国的土地踏上自己的国家。
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
艺术不是过去的财富,也不是外来的舶来品,而是所有活着的、创造着的人们现在生活的一部分。
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
我似乎总能从你们这片突出于大西洋之外的伟大的小说土地上获得灵感和新的活力。
Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.
在不发达的土地上工作两三年,志愿者经常会发现他的工作是例行公事,充满挫折。
I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.
我在西部长大,在土地上长大,接受过地质学的教育。我带着我们应该做什么的愿景来到这里。
I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.
我想成为第一个在比赛中实现四跳的第一夫人。随着年龄的增长,我知道我的滑冰风格会发展和成熟。
To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
要让宇宙飞船在另一个世界着陆是非常困难的,如果我们失去了这种能力,那将是令人心碎的。
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
妈妈一有机会就劝孩子们“要向阳跳”。“我们可能不会在太阳上着陆,但至少我们会离开地面。
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
我要走公海的路,到你来以前我所知道的地方去,海风会把你名字的记忆从我身上吹走。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
你不能简单地把新东西放到一个地方。你必须吸收你周围看到的东西,土地上存在的东西,然后用这些知识和当代思维来解释你看到的东西。
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
做一个穷人是困难的,但是在一个金钱的国度里做一个贫穷的民族是最困难的。
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
保护是人与土地和谐相处的状态。
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
伟大发现的土地也同样是不公正的土地。
In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
在这片移民的土地上,一个人并不是外国人,而仅仅是新来的。
Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.
从情感上讲,一个人与他出生的地方是分不开的。这只是人类。