A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
信
Letters
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。
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
文坛里的小字，就像一个国家里的小人物一样，是最有用、最有意义的。
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。
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。
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?
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。
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。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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 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。
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。
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。
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。