A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
意义
Meaning
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
我不求鸟鸣的意义，也不求旭日高照在雾霭蒙蒙的清晨。他们在那里，他们是美丽的。
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
如果死亡意味着离开舞台的时间足够长，可以换一身戏服，以一个新角色的身份回来，你会放慢脚步吗?或加速?
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
政治目标是目标，战争是达到这一目标的手段，决不能把这些手段同它们的目的分开来考虑。
Sometimes, you have to try not to care, no matter how much you do. Because, sometimes, you mean nothing to someone who means everything to you.
有时候，你不得不试着不去在乎，不管你做了多少。因为，有时候，你对一个对你来说很重要的人来说什么都不是。
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
生活不再那么压抑:我们可以自由地赋予自己的生活意义和目标，可以自由地通过创造一些东西来救赎我们的痛苦。
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
如果给我一个公式，而我不知道它的意思，它不能教我任何东西，但如果我已经知道它，这个公式教我什么?
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
如果你继续寻找幸福所包含的东西，你将永远不会幸福。如果你在寻找生命的意义，你就永远不会活下去。
As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
至于我，独自爱你，让你幸福，不做任何违背你意愿的事，这就是我的命运和我生命的意义。
I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.
我想写一些对他们有意义的歌词，对我有意义的歌词，希望人们能从中学到一些东西。
The shaping of deeply felt values into meaningful, apposite form, is present in all communities, and will find some means of expressions among all.
所有社区都存在着将深刻感受的价值观塑造成有意义的、恰当的形式的现象，并将在所有社区中找到某种表达方式。
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.
古怪并不困扰我。“古怪”是对数学术语的诗意解释，意思是不符合规律的东西——没关系。
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
女神象征的最简单、最基本的意义是承认女性权力作为一种慈善和独立的权力的合法性。
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One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.
一个人需要一些信仰，一些可以让他全身心投入的东西。一个人需要感觉到自己的生命有意义，这个世界需要他。
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
对确定性的追求阻碍了对意义的探索。不确定性正是促使人展现其力量的条件。
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
在某种程度上，当人们使用一个词时，他们的意思变成了它的意思。
They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
他们拼命地寻找生命的意义，却无法打开圣经。
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
真正的学问不在于知道事物的存在，而在于知道它们的意义;这不是记忆，而是判断。
He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
他不知道恐惧这个词的意思，但他又不知道大多数词的意思。