A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
使
Made
The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.
我生活在其中的人们——现在仍然主要生活在其中——以棉花、小麦、牛、石油为生,他们当中通常有商人和职业人士。
The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal.
我很快发现,豚鼠也容易感染,这使我从第三年开始,能够在这种动物身上保存病毒。
And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
这让我再次意识到,因为我已经知道一段时间了,你永远不会适应这样的生活。不管你是谁。不管谁……你是多么成功。
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
生活要么是精神的,要么根本就不是精神的。一个人不能事奉两个主。你的生活是由你的目标所塑造的。你是按照你所渴望的形象塑造的。
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
云是由一层又一层的波纹构成的,这些波纹看起来像云。当你靠近一朵云的时候,你不会得到平滑的物体,而是在更小的尺度上不规则的物体。
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
如果儿童的教育和研究符合他们的爱好和能力,许多人就会成为社会上有用的成员,否则就不会成为社会上的一员。
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.
我指的是要求对另一个国家的事务进行人道主义干预的呼吁- -这是一种新的想法- -即使是在以捍卫人权和自由为借口的情况下。
I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.
我没有上高中,但当我上高中的时候,我实际上是啦啦队的一员;我不是他们中的一员。但是我和一群不同的孩子一起玩。
They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'
他们很少让我失去冷静。他们让我觉得我是完美的波莉,这太荒谬了,所以当我在街上遇到孩子时,他们会说:“我希望我妈妈像你一样。”
My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective.
我的印象是,他走路的样子就像玻璃做的一样,如果你碰他一下,他就会摔得粉碎。我不知道这是不是一种行为,但它确实有效。
I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.
我不能做那种“给你钱,穿漂亮衣服,拿支票”之类的废话。“我不是天生的那种人。无论我做什么,我都要做到最好。
Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!
有些讨厌的媒体人只是拿我参加这个节目的决定开玩笑。他们还取笑我生活中的其他选择,这些选择让我从那时到现在都感到骄傲!!
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I don't regret any of the life decisions i've made because with every choice i've made, i've learned something new.
我不后悔我所做的任何一个人生决定,因为我所做的每一个选择,都让我学到了一些新的东西。
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.
当法官有权力决定某一法规中哪些区分是合法的,哪些是不合法的,他就有权力反对任何和所有的立法,因为所有的立法都有区分。
Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.
是的,在过去十年左右的时间里,我每录一张唱片都会说,好吧,这是最后一张了,我不想再录了,我不想再做这个了,我不想过公众生活。
I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, we have the morning papers. It's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted.
我把它做成了晨间秀。我们有咖啡杯,我们有早报。有那种感觉,这就是我想要的。
I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
十几岁的时候,我变得非常有名,我的名字和照片被所有的媒体报道。他们让我变得比生命更伟大,所以我想活得比生命更伟大,而唯一的方法就是陶醉其中。
We are all self made but only the successful will admit it.
我们都是自己创造的,但只有成功者才会承认这一点。