A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
晚上
Night
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
在我们镇上有一个盖世太保军官，他喜欢下棋。占领开始后，他发现我父亲是这个地区的象棋大师，所以他每天晚上都带他到家里。
I'll get depressed out on the road simply because I'm not being the mama that's cooking supper every night, or that's fixing my husband's plate and my baby's plate. You miss those things, and I miss them.
我在路上会感到沮丧，因为我不是每天晚上做晚饭的妈妈，也不是给丈夫和孩子做饭的妈妈。你想念那些东西，我也想念它们。
I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
白天，我的手浸在脏兮兮的碗碟水里，烈日当空，屋顶被晒得脏兮兮的。过了一段时间，即使是在晚上，对上帝的感觉也没有持续多久。
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
总有一天，当这个奇异的世界恢复和平时，我想再次来到伦敦，在一个月色皎洁的夜晚，站在某个阳台上，俯视泰晤士河平静的银色曲线和它那黑色的桥梁。
You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.
一天晚上你摔跤，第二天早上起床，飞到下一个城市。你试着锻炼，试着吃点东西，然后，你又得去工作了。你生活在手提箱里。
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
我每天晚上都要写论文，直到凌晨四点，直到我不能再写一个字，甚至连下一封信都写不出来。我上床睡觉了。第二天早上八点，我又开始写作了。
When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid.
当图茨终于能够呼吸了，血又回到他的脑子里来的时候，他回忆道，他在赛跑中从来没有超过过杰基，也从来没有被杰基超过过。图茨从来没有说过粗话，但是那天晚上他差点说出口来。杰基。
The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.
船员是你每天早上和晚上回家前看到的面孔。我花更多的时间和这些人在一起，而不是和我的朋友和家人在一起，所以他们永远是你的一部分，你会成为一个什么样的演员，所以我希望我能再次见到他们。
We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
我们不得不整晚都认为我们的孩子死了。当上帝让我们看到他的时候，他并没有死，他只是吮着大拇指。上帝让他安然无恙。他是个奇迹。他很健康，很完美，上帝真的，真的保佑我们。
I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
我过去常常在晚上洗完澡、洗完头发、洗完指关节、指甲和牙齿后，躺在凉爽干净的被单上。然后，我可以静静地躺在黑暗中，脸朝着有树的窗户，与上帝交谈。
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
这是一个很好的规则永远不会看到或跟的人字已经逼迫你的心,或者帮助它,就像它是明智的,我不会过于密切有时在明亮的光线照在你的路径在一个夏天的夜晚,如果你不会看到下面的丑陋的虫子。
There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.
在歌剧经理的生活中，每天晚上都会有两声宽慰的叹息。第一个是当帷幕升起时，第二个是当最后一个帷幕毫无灾难地落下时，人们松了一口气，感激地意识到奇迹又发生了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.
我不能给你夕阳，但我可以给你黑夜。
The night cometh when no man can work.
黑夜来临，没有人能工作。
My business doesn't keep me warm at night.
我的工作使我晚上不暖和。
The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
当月亮不避开黑夜时，它依然明亮。
They have come from all of night’s pathways to cry in my bed. They were so many, they are so many! I don’t know who lives, I don’t know who has died. I’ll cry for myself so that I can cry for all.
他们从我床上经过的每一个夜晚都来哭泣。他们是那么多，他们是那么多!我不知道谁还活着，我不知道谁已经死了。我要为自己哭泣，这样我才能为所有人哭泣。