A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
男人
Men
I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.
我不认为女人比男人好,我认为男人比女人差很多。
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
人们所做的坏事在他们死后依然存在;好人常与他们的尸骨葬在一起。
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
许多男人把他的成功归功于他的第一任妻子和第二任妻子。
Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.
男人突然变成了一种稀缺的商品,如果不像大米那样受欢迎的话。
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
你很容易就能找到伟人或天赋异禀的人,但身材匀称的人则不然。
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
人类是一种多毛、有尾巴的四足动物的后代,可能生活在树上。
I have tamed men of iron in my day, shall I not easily crush these men of butter?
我在世的日子,曾驯服了铁民,难道我不能轻易打垮这些奶油民吗?
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
荒谬的特权;除了人以外,没有任何生物服从于它。
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
一旦拔剑,人的感情就会变得没有节制。
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
衡量一个人是否正直,要看他的行为,而不是他的职业。
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
男人想要权力来做事。男孩想要权力,是为了有所成就。
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
什么都不缺是上帝的特权,像上帝一样的人什么都不缺是上帝的特权。
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Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
年轻人想要忠诚,却没有;老年人想背信弃义,但办不到。
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
动物所处的时代比人类聪明;但是他们的智慧局限于一些细节,而且局限在一个非常狭窄的范围内。
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.
对于那些迟早会幸运地脱离群体的男人来说,最令人陶醉的时刻是,他们不再是受他人支配的躯体,而是发现自己掌握了自己的时间,学会了自己的声音和权威。
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的:人人生而平等;他们被造物主赋予某些不可剥夺的权利;其中包括生命、自由和对幸福的追求。
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
当然,最好的作品,对公众最有价值的作品,都出自那些没有结婚或没有孩子的人。