A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
从来没有
Never
I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.
我的意思是,我曾让调酒师和服务员对我的一个笑话做出评论,比如指出某种逻辑错误或我从未想过的事情,他们是对的。
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
我可以原谅,但我不能忘记,只是另一种说法,我不会原谅。宽恕应该像一张作废的便条——撕成两半,烧掉,这样它就永远不会对一个人显现出来。
That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.
事情就是这样。你永远不会习惯有人离开的感觉。就在你认为已经和解、被接受的时候,有人把它指出来给你看,它又一次击中了你,令人震惊。
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
我照例在晴朗的天空中观看星星,忽然看见一颗不寻常的新星,比其他的星星更明亮。那地方以前从来没有一颗星星。
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
正如我赞同一个年轻人身上有一点老人的气质一样,我对一个老人身上有一点年轻人的气质也同样感到高兴。遵守这条规则的人,身体可能会变老,但思想永远不会变老。
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。
I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.
我从小到大从未在屏幕上看到过自己,对我来说,给那些长得像我的人一个看到自己的机会真的很重要。我想把自己看作任何故事的英雄。我想看到我自己从原子弹中拯救世界。
I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.
我尽量小心,因为多年来技术变化太大了。但有些事情是不会改变的。孩子和父母有分歧,孩子试图操纵,父母试图坐下来与规则和规则。这部分永远不会改变。
I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
因此,我的结论是,这颗恒星不是某种彗星或炽热的流星……而是一颗在天空中闪耀的星星,在我们这个时代之前,在世界诞生以来的任何时代,从来没有人见过它。
So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
所以人们认为我一直在谎报年龄?是记录错了。我从来没有告诉过任何人我有多大。他们一问我,我就说:‘这不关你的事。所以这意味着我从来没有谎报过自己的年龄。现在这是真的!
I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
我永远不会忘记,有一天早上,我走进去时,身上青肿得很厉害——头天晚上很难受——一个客户对我说,‘天哪,维达尔,你的脸怎么了?我说,“哦,没什么,夫人,我只是被一个发夹绊倒了。”
I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded.
我能做东西,但我不会做。比如三文鱼,我可以把它放在锅里。前几天我做了面条,但是面条很硬。我从来没有想过要检查它们;当我觉得它们准备好了的时候,我就不再做了。真的,我太心不在焉了。
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Never say goodbye because saying goodbye means going away and going away means for getting.
永远不要说再见,因为说再见意味着离开,离开意味着得到。
If you ask how many Times You've crossed my mind, I will say once because you never really left.
如果你问你有多少次在我脑海中闪过,我会说一次,因为你从未真正离开。
Lost time is never found again.
光阴一去不复返。
When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
当一个像我这样见过很多次的女人,突然失去了联系;总是忙忙碌碌,永远也抽不出时间来,那就意味着一个男人。
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
宽恕你的敌人,但永远不要忘记他们的名字。
You never realize how much you like someone until you watch them like someone else.
你永远不会意识到你有多喜欢一个人,直到你看到他们喜欢上另一个人。