A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
使
Making
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
翻译和自己写诗肯定有关系，但我不知道是什么关系。
You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.
你知道，作为司法部长，没有什么比确保你和你的家人的安全更重要的事情了。
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
一个不知名的好人所做的工作就像一条藏在地下的水脉，秘密地使地面变绿。
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
我经常被指责把人类学变成文学，但人类学也是实地研究。写作是它的核心。
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
佩尔助学金过去和现在都是为中低收入学生提供高等教育的重要工具。
I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.
我喜欢制作小视频和小唱片。我一直很喜欢摄像机和四轨卡式录音机，还有静止摄像机，什么都行。
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
把小说改编成电影剧本，就像为一幅早已完成并装裱好的画画上一系列素描。
Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.
虽然我很灵活，随时准备接受建议，但我不能把那些会分散我注意力、影响我音乐创作的想法像伞一样罩在头上。
I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.
我受到诗人的启发，所以我总是在那个方向上，而不是其他任何方向。是它造就了我……还有我的堕落。
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
在古欧洲和古克里特岛，妇女因其在发现农业和发明纺织和制陶艺术中的作用而受到尊重。
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
交易是我的艺术形式。其他人在画布上画得很漂亮，或者写得很好。我喜欢做交易，最好是大交易。我就是这样获得快感的。
And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.
我们有一个不公平的优势，不用担心观众会怎么想。我们处于真空中。我们在拍短片，真的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
在人生早期经历几次失败是最大的实际益处。
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
成功不在于永不犯错误，而在于永不犯第二次同样的错误。
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
联合国系统仍然是使世界不那么脆弱的最好工具。
The key to staying together is making sure you guys like each other and need each other.
保持在一起的关键是确保你们彼此喜欢，彼此需要。
The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.
进步的代价是麻烦，我必须取得很大的进步。
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
从六岁起，我就想成为一名艺术家。当时我指的是画家，但事实证明我真正的意思是我是一个对观察世界和复制世界非常感兴趣的人。