A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
长
Long
If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.
如果有人说，嘿，你知道，这个漫长的周末，我们去跳伞吧——我会说，不，你疯了吗?我还是坐下来喝杯茶吧。
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
一幅画必须具有产生光的真正力量，很长一段时间以来，我一直有意识地通过光，或者说在光中表达自己。
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。
I've been around so long and no matter if I've done good things or bad things, or my personal life has been good or bad, the fans have always stuck with me.
我在这里已经很久了，无论我做过好事还是坏事，或者我的个人生活是好是坏，球迷们总是支持我。
It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.
很明显，我们感官的每一个直接的对象，只要我们还意识到这个对象，在这些术语的主要意义上，都是存在的，并且是真实的。
What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.
你所做的，是你逐渐变得越来越有经验，越来越现实关于戏剧的宽容，也就是戏剧应该演多久。
The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.
去斗殴的唯一好处是你可以进入绿色的房间，你可以看到一些你很久没有见过的老朋友。
I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.
很长一段时间以来，我一直期待着我生命中的这个年龄。在我二十几岁的时候，我在日历上标出每一天——我厌倦了和高中生玩。
I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.
我吃素这么久了，都忘了我有多想念吃肉了。你知道，只有长时间不吃肉，你才会意识到肉对你有多重要。
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。
That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.
这是绝对正确的，除此之外，生命并不是物理定律的偶然。有一长串的实验表明恰恰相反。
We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.
当然，我们早已不再认为大自然是我们情绪的共鸣之镜，也不再认为大自然与人类的世俗事务有任何关系。
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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。
As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.
我刚写完第一本书，就写了第二本书，希望今年能卖出去，而我也差不多完成了这个系列的第三本书。另外两项计划已经拟定。我要在这干很长时间。
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。
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.
我没有一个我渴望的大脑来处理我所不知道的事情，那些不在我的知识范围内的事情，一个理论，一个理由，一个论点等等，我不能那样做，我根本不在那个范围内。
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。
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。