A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
意思是
Mean
Maybe I'm scared because you mean more to me than any other person. You are everything I think about, everything I want.
也许我害怕是因为你对我来说比任何人都重要。你是我所想的一切,我想要的一切。
Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.
大赦国际是一个巨大的广告牌,一个闪烁的广告牌,对世界其他地方来说,我们并不是指我们的移民法。
I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mean people don't like what I am saying.
我不树敌,只是我不害怕说出自己的想法,这有时意味着人们不喜欢我说的话。
Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.
仅仅因为你对某人坦诚并不意味着你是一个诚实的人;你可能只是坐在副驾驶的位置上。
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
大多数值得说的话都是老生常谈。让它们值得说的是,我们是认真的。
My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.
我母亲结过三次婚。我爸爸是……我真的没有。我是说,他确实存在,但我和他没有任何关系。
I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.
我对那件事非常认真。我的意思是,我很少在不巡演的时候坐在鼓点前,因为我们巡演太多了。
I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.
我一直是个自由主义者。把每个人单独留下。让其他人做他们想做的。别理别人的头发。
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
奇怪的是,它似乎只是在描述一种语言模式,并不意味着它所说的,一个人实际上可以说一个人的意思。
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
我无法治愈我自己那最可悲的青春的愚蠢——认为那些关心我们的人会关心那些对我们意义重大的事情。
I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did.
我不太喜欢来回走动。我的意思是,我认为它有它自己独特的品质,但我认为它比我们做的任何一个半小时的节目都要差。
So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.
我们经常谈论拯救地球,但我们真正的意思是拯救地球的方式,所以我们可以住在这里。所以它能支撑我们。
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I think if you talk to anybody who would like to have had children... I mean, you look at families all the time and you see there is something there that you don't have.
我想如果你和任何想要孩子的人交谈……我的意思是,你一直在观察家庭,你会发现有些东西是你没有的。
I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
我的意思是,在某种程度上,我很难看到我的作品,因为我对我没有理解的东西持批评态度,或者我认为我在表达一个观点。
Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.
分成团队并不一定意味着诋毁他人。对群体性的研究普遍发现,群体内的爱比群体外的敌意增加得更多。
I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it.
我似乎总是发现自己在与平衡法则作斗争——平衡法则是一种强大的平衡力,它使事物趋于平衡,使生活不再具有“卡通化”。也许我在做一件很不自然的事……如果爱因斯坦还活着,我会问他这个问题。
But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.
但是那些认为自己能变聋的人错了,因为你不能。我说的不是想象一个聋人的一生是什么样的,我的意思是仅仅意识到那一瞬间是什么样的。
I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me.
我的意思是,当真正开始的时候,我只想打鼓。其余的对我来说从来就没有那么重要。