A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
信
Letters
Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.
是的，我收到几封监狱寄来的信。
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
信是期望被包装在一个信封里。
No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.
不发短信。然后会发生什么呢?老式的信件。
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
这不是一封信，而是我搂着你的那一瞬间。
It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
这不是世界上最聪明的工作，但我必须知道这些字母。
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
认识法律不是要记住它们的字母，而是要把握它们的全部力量和意义。
I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.
我收到来自全美各地女孩的恐吓信，因为我不愿和她们一起去舞会。
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
只给我写信，给我写信，我喜欢看你的跳跃和突然开始的墨水。
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
坦普尔在文人中间是一个通晓世故的人，在文人中间是一个通晓世故的人。
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
艺术的艺术，表达的光辉和文字之光的阳光，就是单纯。
This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
这是一个自由的国家。人们有权给我写信，我也有权不读。
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
人老了，就像一堆别人寄来的信。我们不再是过去的我们，我们已经到来。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through.
你在信中写的东西，我有时也有同感:有时我不知道该如何度过。
Letters are falling apart but the sentence descend on the word and the wording is permanent. Never been missed. If you were missed. What did you missz/ Interpreted is.
字母正在分解，但句子落在单词上，措辞是永久性的。从来没有错过。如果有人想念你。你翻译错了什么?
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
字母像酒;声音若坚固，存而不坏。一个人放下书信就像他放下酒窖一样。
People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.
人们会给我写恐吓信。当我还是白人的时候，我怎么敢代表西班牙裔呢?我试图让他们明白这是种族歧视。
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
奇迹是用小写字母复述同一个故事，而这个故事是用世界各地的文字写成的，只是字体太大，有些人看不见。
The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
我收到的关于“玫瑰之名”最有趣的来信来自中西部的人们，他们可能并不完全理解，但想要了解更多，他们对这幅不是他们自己的世界的画面感到兴奋。