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。
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。
I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.
我有成千上万的磁带、照片、传单、信件、海报、艺术品——基本上所有发生过的事情，我都保存了下来。不过我不是个囤积狂。我是图书管理员。
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 man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
科学家和文学家一样，也很容易只从抽象的角度来看待人类，只从我们这个复杂的、多方面的存在的一面来考虑问题。
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
礼貌是在一个合理的时间内回信，就像它是在一个鞠躬，立即返回。