A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
长
Long
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
只要你不感到生活的琐碎和痛苦，其余的都不重要，快乐或不快乐。
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
有太多的书我没有读过，太多的地方我没有见过，太多的回忆我没有保存足够长的时间。
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
在我看来，多年来，或者说太长时间以来，政治一直关注的是右派或左派，而不是右派或右派。
A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
一篇好的讲道应该像女人的裙子一样:短到足以引起人们的兴趣，但长到足以涵盖要点。
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
我想我们有梦想，所以我们不必分开那么久。如果我们在对方的梦里，我们可以一起玩一整夜。
I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits.
我喜欢在舞台上跳来跳去，只要是在课堂上。这些都不是在空中跳跃和劈叉。
As long as we can see the same sky, breathe the same air, and step on the same planet then you and i are not impossible.
只要我们能看到同样的天空，呼吸同样的空气，踏在同样的星球上，那么你和我就不是不可能的。
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
写小说，你写的东西没有限制，只要它能增加你所写论文的价值。
I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
我对动物有着巨大的热情，虽然退休还有很长一段路要走，但当我退休时，我想和动物一起做些事情。
I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.
我已经算出了我的学习曲线。我可以看着某样东西，然后以某种方式确切地知道我需要多长时间才能学会它。
Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.
太多的人认为经济学是一门应该等到大学水平的学科。但它不能等那么久。
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
夏天是一张在六月签的期票，不知不觉中就过去了很长时间，明年一月到期。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
然而，青春甚至可以享受它的忧郁;因为那种忧郁是一种预言的最终事实，还有很长的路要走。
This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.
这是城市更新的关键时刻。我们必须着眼长远。
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.
我知道，只要我坐下来写，想法就会出现。它们会是什么，我不知道。
Life well spent is long.
花得好的生命是长久的。
I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.
我能联想到历史人物或虚构人物。故事发生在未来还是现在并不重要，只要故事引人入胜。
As long as youre green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
只要你是绿色的，你就在成长。你一成熟就开始腐烂。