A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
避免
Avoid
I will not steal a victory. The end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue.
我不会窃取胜利。我们胜利的目的和完美，就是要避免那些我们所征服的人的罪恶和软弱。
It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.
不诚实人的计谋，是献上不需要的祭物，或是献上不可能的祭物，免得献上所需要的。
You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.
你知道，我尽量避免用谷歌搜索自己，但有时我会犯错误。有时候，我只是想看看这个世界在某一天是如何看待我的。
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.
我不仅避免提到塞林格，我拒绝去想他。我没有重读他给我的信。这段经历太痛苦了。
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
发明在于避免构造无用的精巧装置，而构造有用的组合物，而这种组合物是无限少的。
I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.
我对“厨房水槽”这个词很生气。这只是意味着你侵入了不同种类的房子，在那里很难避免厨房水槽。
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
我们应该在我们的权力范围内，通过分析可能的原因，通过努力消除这些原因，通过本着合作与善意的精神进行讨论，寻求以一切手段避免战争。
I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
我以前在学校踢足球，我喜欢真正的体育运动，但现在我尽量避免任何可能锻炼不同肌肉的运动。这可能会对我的射箭技术产生负面影响。
I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.
我不想在做饭的时候被烫伤。为了避免在煎锅时被击中，我站得远远的，用的筷子几乎有两英尺长。我从我妈妈那里学来的，她也是这么做的。
You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.
你不能强迫别人这么做。但我们鼓励了我们的观众，因为我们避免了常规摇滚音乐会的对抗:我们在这里，你们在那里。相反，我们在寻找互动。
And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.
一开始，很多公司都避免为新系统设计一种全新的标题，因为这需要学习一种新机器同时学习如何制作新标题。
One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
我在这本书中尝试做的一件事就是避免那种简单的，简单的，简单化的动机观来展示我们做事情是为了一个复杂的原因网，一个真正的原因编织。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
就我所避免的事情而言，我总是避免跟随潮流，因为它们就是潮流。
Sometimes being too nice is dangerous; you have to show your mean side once in a while to avoid getting.
有时候太好是危险的;你必须偶尔表现出你的刻薄一面，以避免被人误解。
First learn the rules, then break them.
先学习规则，然后打破规则。
What you cannot avoid, welcome.
你无法避免的，欢迎。
I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.
我总是尽我所能避免给自己贴上标签，或者避免给自己贴上标签。
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
避免痛苦的唯一方法是没有足够的空闲去想自己是否幸福。