A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
时刻
Moment
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
我觉得做生意不容易。从你开始谈论生意的那一刻起,你就开始听起来像个受压迫的人。
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
眼前的美只是一时的魅力;身体的眼睛并不总是心灵的眼睛。
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
我们一时的困难必须以某种方式加以解决,但是我们永久的困难是每时每刻的困难。
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
我知道,世界上每一件美好美好的事物都时时刻刻站在危险的边缘,必须为之奋斗。
The reality of the moment is so palpable and powerful that it holds imagination in a tight orbit from which it never fully escapes.
当下的现实是如此的触手可及,如此的强大,以至于它把想象力牢牢地束缚在一个狭小的轨道上,永远无法完全逃脱。
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
狄更斯目前是一位被严重低估的作家。他那个时代的每个人都钦佩他,但我认为现在人们对他的评价还不够。
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
世界永远是对自己的讽刺;每时每刻,它都是对它所假装的东西的嘲弄和矛盾。
I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be.
我想我们每个人在一生中都会有一个伟大的时刻,一个月,一个星期,在那时候,我们最充分地实现了自己的理想。
The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
一旦你有了孩子和抵押贷款,你就想让一切正常;你被困在人类项目中,你希望它蓬勃发展。
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
在关键时刻,一些身居高位的平庸之辈的随意性决定会影响事件的进程达一百年之久。
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
衡量一个人的最终标准不是他在舒适时刻所处的位置,而是他在挑战和争议时刻所处的位置。
In one moment I'm goin all the way. I make my poetry everyday and I'm frozen, comin right on time I froze my mind with that serious rhyme.
在一个瞬间,我要走完所有的路。我每天都写诗,我被那严肃的韵律迷住了。
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
最可怕的时刻总是在你开始之前。
I'm in an on-off relationship at the moment.
我现在正处于分分合合的关系中。
Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.
内疚会让你在需要确定的时候怀疑自己。
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
地球上每个人生命中的每一刻、每一件事都在他的灵魂中播下了某种东西。
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。
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
对于一个寻欢作乐的人来说,他的每一分每一秒似乎都在虚度,因为他并不享受其中的快乐。