A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
材料
Material
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
如果人类希望有一个长期和无限期的物质繁荣时期，他们只需要以一种和平和有益的方式对待彼此。
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
全世界都知道有大量的史诗材料散布在各个国家;有时，它的艺术价值和考古价值一样非同寻常，但并非总是如此。
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.
我记录的大部分材料都是小组结构。我没有发行大型管弦乐作品作为唱片，因为它不属于可能的范围。
The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
这些物质像间歇泉或喷油口一样从里面冒出来。它自动地从我的手臂上流下来，从我的钢笔里流出来，每天六千字。
The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.
因此，所有物质本性的现实性，包括我的身体的现实性，即认知主体的身体在内，都被排除在行动之外，而所有物质本性的现实性，包括我的身体的现实性，都被排除在行动之外。
If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.
如果我不得不放弃其他一切，只保留工作的一个方面，我就必须继续写作，因为我热爱写作。是的，我也喜欢表演。但我不能放弃写作材料。
I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.
我有很长一段时间的所有材料，但我只是太忙了。有时候我们会坐在家里，在家庭聚会上唱一些这样的歌，每个人都说我应该录下来。
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
在我看来，艺术作品是物质世界中唯一具有内在秩序的对象，这就是为什么，虽然我不认为只有艺术才重要，但我相信艺术是为了艺术而艺术。
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
物质上的成功让你有能力专注于其他真正重要的事情。这就是能够做出改变，不仅在你自己的生活中，而且在其他人的生活中。
But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.
但当我在做电视节目的时候，一切都是为了得分。你必须把这些笑话讲得轰轰烈烈，尽你所能让材料真正流行起来。如果没有，那就是材料有问题，或者是你有问题。
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
人类的物质似乎有一个主要的缺陷:它不喜欢仅仅被认为是人类的物质。它发现很难忍受这种感觉，即它必须被动地接受来自上面的变化。
I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.
我希望不仅仅是我的纪录片，而是每个人的纪录片，最后。这将使下个世纪的历史学家感到困惑，因为除了印刷材料，他们还有所有这些图片可以看。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
当代科学是以唯物主义哲学为基础的，唯物主义哲学主张一切现实都是物质的或物质的。
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
难道所有的经历最终不是都变成了文学材料吗?
It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.
材料来自哪里并不重要，只要质量好就行。
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
我们生活在机器时代。历史上，喜剧演员第一次被迫为自己提供笑话和喜剧素材来与机器竞争。不管他知不知道，这位喜剧演员都在跑步机上逐渐被人遗忘。
So there was this big slug of decaying material that introduced a big slug of nutrients into the system.
所以有大量的腐烂物质将大量的营养物质引入系统。
I do like directing other people's material.
我喜欢指导别人的作品。