A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
可怕
Awful
A spark may raise An awful blaze.
星星之火,可以燎原。
I've played an awful lot of repressed people.
我演过很多压抑的人。
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
关于我的脾气已经写了很多了。
I know the other side. I know what awful golf is.
我了解对方。我知道什么是糟糕的高尔夫球。
Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.
死亡是一件可怕的事情。我自己也不相信。
To Fall In Love Is Awfully Simple But To Fall Out Of Love Is Simply Awful.
坠入爱河极其简单,而失恋则极其可怕。
There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.
世界上有一些可怕的东西,这是真的,但也有一些伟大的书。
Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
那些可怕的东西是可以生存的,因为我们相信自己是坚不可摧的。
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
指挥家变老的可怕之处在于,你似乎变得更受欢迎,而不是更不受欢迎。
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
我可以做很多糟糕的电视节目,但我基本上坚持要给你带来新闻。
How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.
如果你没有大脑,你怎么能说话呢?我不知道,但是有些没有脑子的人会说很多话。
It's so awful when you need something from someone else, even though you're not sure what it is, and then you don't get it.
当你需要从别人那里得到某样东西时,即使你不确定它是什么,然后你没有得到它,这是非常可怕的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.
我最近没有写太多东西,但我想我可能很快就会重新开始写。经常出差,当你有几周的假期时,你很可能会避免坐在钢琴前,录磁带,给自己更多的工作要做。
What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.
巴黎做得对的地方是,让开车出行变得很糟糕,而让乘坐公共交通工具或自行车出行变得非常容易。
It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
在我看来,观众想看的东西似乎发生了变化。我只能希望这是正确的,因为现在有很多和我同龄的人,我们的人数超过了其他人。
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
我们应该为年老做好准备,这样,这个世界就不会迫切需要从对下一个世界的冥想中吸收老年。看到老态龙钟的瘦削的手在坟墓上做棺材是可怕的。
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
我们都有梦想。但是为了让梦想成真,它需要极大的决心、奉献、自律和努力。
I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
我不是个擅于休息的人。我假期过得很糟糕。它来自那段我不工作的时期。那真是最糟糕的部分。