A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
学
Learnt
I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.
我从我的父亲那里学到了植物，他是一名草药医生和业余显微镜师。
Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
当我三岁的时候学会了十二次乘法表后，它就走下坡路了。
I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.
我学会了热爱阅读。然后我开始写故事，我更喜欢这样。
Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
跳舞也是一样，你不能跳舞，直到你学会了舞步，你的脚可以做的事情。
I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.
我很早就知道，你的听众会按照他们想要的方式来欣赏歌曲，而不是按照你可能也想要的方式。
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
知道一个人是什么，知道这个世界把他当作什么，这是件好事。你们若不明白他怎样明白自己，就不能明白他。
I've learnt that if I tell myself I'm not allowed something, I binge on it later. So if I want chocolate, I have chocolate. If I want biscuits, I have biscuits. I love cake. I just love cake.
我明白了，如果我告诉自己，我不被允许做某事，我以后就会暴饮暴食。如果我想要巧克力，我有巧克力。如果我想要饼干，我就有饼干。我喜欢蛋糕。我就是喜欢蛋糕。
They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.
他们说那些杀不死你的东西会让你更强大，我也学到了很多，但你永远无法预测未来，所以最好的办法就是尽你所能去做任何你被要求做的事情。
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.
我并不为雅典所发生的一切感到痛苦。我从中吸取了很多教训，最终可能成为一个更坚强的人。有过很多次险些失败的经历，这教会了我要坚持到底，而且成功的机会还是有的。