A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Master
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
最难掌握的算术是能让我们计算自己的幸福。
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
如果你是主人,有时要瞎,如果你是仆人,有时要聋。
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
我是宇宙的主人,却不是我自己,我是唯一反抗我绝对权力的人。
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
金钱在某些方面是生命的火焰:它是一个非常优秀的仆人,但却是一个可怕的主人。
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
优点,无论多么微不足道,都应该寻求和奖励。方法是大师中的大师。
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
传统主义者将不得不掌握以前由左派垄断的持续行动主义的技巧。
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
为了主人的荣誉,所有的人都必须沿着各自的轨迹,无声无息地永远沿着牛顿的轨迹前进。
I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
我想这就是我热爱生活的原因。没有疯狂的总体计划。它就在我面前展开。
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
如果你继续与光一起工作,你将会遇见你的主人,因为他将会寻找你。
It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.
这不是一个对每一个偶像都进行重拍和再创造的总体计划。这正是我被雇来做的。
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day
当我学会写作的时候,我成了自己的主人,我变得非常强壮,这种力量一直伴随着我,直到今天
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
失败的艺术并不难掌握;很多东西似乎都充满了失去的意图,所以失去它们并不是灾难。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.
总是有两个,一个是师傅,一个是徒弟。
The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
主人不负责任的权力没有这样的约束。
Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle.
猫先生终于来到了一座富丽堂皇的城堡,城堡的主人是个食人魔,是世界上最富有的人。因为国王所经过的所有土地都属于这座城堡。
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
做自己的主人就是做自己的奴隶。
The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.
思想是一个奇妙的仆人,却是一个可怕的主人。
I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.
我不是最棒的司机。我不知道我是否能掌握这门艺术。