A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
长
Long
I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine.
我从来都不是一个往上看的人。我总是从梯子上往下看。只要下面有一个人,我就没事。
I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.
我崇拜烤饼和点心。如果我再也不吃饭,只要我能吃到糕点和果冻甜甜圈,我就不在乎了。
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。
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
只要世界还存在,就会有错误,如果没有人反对,没有人反叛,这些错误将永远存在下去。
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
我写场景——通常是很长的场景——主要是因为我仍然被引诱写六行,其中一行半就可以了。
Don't let go too soon. But don't hang on too long. Its sad, But sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with good bye.
不要太早放手。但是不要坚持太久。这很让人难过,但有时候你的余生从再见开始。
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
长久以来,世界没有认识到奥运会和奥林匹克运动是关于优秀的体育和美术的。
History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.
历史的教训是,要充分利用出现的改革机遇,因为它们不常出现,也不会持续太久。
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
躺在床上是一种完美的、至高无上的体验,只要你有一支足够长的彩色铅笔在天花板上画画。
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。
I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.
我一直在努力做出让自己不舒服的选择。只要你不舒服,就意味着你在成长。
All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.
我一直在想,‘我要尽可能长时间地做这件事,如果拿不到钱,我就当个乞丐。“所以,我来了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
如果你很穷,你不可能活得很长。
It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil.
这是一次漫长、焦急、无情、永恒的守夜。
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
现代科学瞬息万变,任何实验室都不可能长期存在于一个以旧设备为基础的项目中。创新和革新是保持实验室在科学前沿的必要条件。
But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They're the best. So it's the food.
但我对这个问题的回答是,除了显而易见的,那就是你在很长一段时间里积累的人际关系,除了餐饮。餐饮。他们是最好的。所以是食物的问题。
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。
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
很多时候,当你应该待在家里的时候,你的善意却能让你走得更远。