A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
意思
Meant
I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.
我相信,旨在减少据称由二氧化碳引起的全球变暖的政策将是破坏性的。
Trust that your soul has a plan and even is you can't see it all, know that everything will unfold as it is meant to.
相信你的灵魂有一个计划,即使你不能看到它的全部,知道一切都会按照它的本意展开。
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
女人,或者更准确地说,也许,婚姻,是你注定要与之妥协的生活的代表。
I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
我认为应该在夜间阅读的书籍应该直面我们试图思考的恐惧。
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?
Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?
想象一下,如果贝多芬有一台录音机。那你就会明白他的意思了。也许他的意思是“哒哒哒”而不是“嘣嘣嘣!”“谁知道呢?
I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.
我认为,在很长一段时间里,这似乎是一种艺术形式,作为一名女权主义者意味着要用完美的天使般的视角来描绘女性。这一点也不像女权主义。
I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.
我发现我从来就不太尊重金钱,这意味着金钱最终对我的统治比它应有的多了一点。所以我在努力学习——在人生的这个晚年!-实际控制它。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I guess I just wasn't meant to dance.
我想我只是不适合跳舞。
When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.
当人们告诉我“很高兴来到这里”时,他们的意思是在房子里,而不是和我在一起。
Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
最后期限注定要被打破。我一直在打破它们。
Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
个人目标对我来说从来没有那么重要。海斯曼也不例外。
We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.
我们不会要求研究人员去做他们从未想过要做的事情,那就是得到一个想法。