A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
长
Long
The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
苏格拉底通常的形象是一个丑陋的小平民，他激励一个英俊的年轻贵族就大问题写长篇对话。
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
因此，在这些顾问和这种希望的影响下，我终于允许我的朋友们出版了这本书，就像他们一直恳求我做的那样。
I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough.
我已经空了一个多月了。有些人可能认为这足够长了。其他人可能认为这还不够长。
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
长期的学徒期是成功最合乎逻辑的途径。唯一的选择就是一夜成名，但我不能给你一个公式。
There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.
只要不使用破坏性的手段，想要获得工作报酬，或寻求收入最大化都没有错。
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
不惜一切代价去夺取胜利，不惧一切恐怖去夺取胜利，不论前路再长再苦也要去夺取胜利;因为没有胜利，就没有生存。
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
这将需要很长一段时间，当然，到下个世纪，西方仍将是占主导地位的文明，但这种衰落正在发生。
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
即使是最狡猾的伪装，也无法在真爱存在的地方长时间地隐藏它，也无法在它不存在的地方长时间地假装它。
For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return.
因为你们尝过飞行的滋味，就必在地上行走，举目向天，因为你们曾在那里，也必盼望归回。
As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.
只要你面带微笑，眼睛炯炯有神，肩膀挺直，就没有人会注意到你的屁股、腰和脚。
Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.
现在我经常听到有人抱怨大鼓独奏，但那时候他们想让我继续演奏下去，这样他们就可以去酒吧喝一杯了。
Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.
学校必须停止拿笔，让精力充沛的年轻人远离就业市场和街头。我们把青春期拉长了很长很长时间。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.
太久了，事实上，我们不是说你是这个就是那个。
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。
May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.
愿你想活多久就活多久，不想活多久就活多久。
Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today.
作为国家足球联盟的一员，我已经经历了这么长时间，我遇到了这么多的教练和设备经理，他们让我成为了今天的我。
It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil.
这是一次漫长、焦急、无情、永恒的守夜。
Don't let go too soon but don't hold on too long.
不要太早放手，但不要坚持太久。