A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
测量
Measure
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
除了每天穿多少件干净的衬衫之外，还有其他衡量一个男人自尊的标准。
No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.
没有人用几周或几天来衡量一个人的一生。你用岁月和发生在你身上的事情来衡量生命。
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
衡量一个人是否诚实的最好标准不是他的所得税申报表。这是他浴室磅秤上的零点调整。
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
犯罪和不良生活是一个国家失败的衡量标准，一切犯罪归根到底都是社会的犯罪。
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
当会众成为衡量布道的标准时，牧师就拿自己的灵魂作抵押。
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
研究包括四件事:用来思考的大脑，用来看东西的眼睛，用来测量的机器，第四，钱。
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
欲望是创造，是这个过程中不可思议的元素。如果有一种衡量欲望的工具，人们就能预知成就。
I'm proud to say that I've never had a normal job. I started doing stand-up when I was in high school, purely as a measure to never get a proper job.
我很自豪地说，我从来没有过一份正常的工作。我上高中时就开始做单口相声，纯粹是为了永远找不到一份合适的工作。
The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.
该措施将对伤害胎儿的人设定刑事处罚，与孕妇遭受伤害或死亡时适用的刑罚相同。
Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.
公司开始衡量他们的客户服务有多有效，并试图了解他们可以做些什么来改善客户服务流程。
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
不要倒在你想要的安慰上，倒在你所拥有的怜悯上。宁可看神使你受苦的结局，也不要看你受苦难的程度。
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
但是随着冰川的缓慢威胁，萧条开始了。没有人知道它的进展;没有人有任何阻止它的计划。每个人都想让开。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
不要在意他们对你的评价。用英寸来测量。
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
用你心灵的阴影来衡量它的高度。
You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.
你不能用程度来衡量爱。
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
你的良心是衡量你的自私是否诚实的尺度。仔细听。
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
世界的现实很少能达到人类想象的崇高目标。
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
每个人的生活都有一定程度的悲伤，有时正是这种悲伤唤醒了我们。