A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经常
Often
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
后来,亲爱的姨妈常常问我,为什么我从来没有告诉过别人我是如何被对待的。孩子们所讲的不比动物多多少,因为他们所接受的是永恒不变的。
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
流行音乐家常常把意义抛诸脑后,用它来代替卡通片。更深层次的艺术家——世界上的垃圾艺术家和使用表情符号的人——倾向于把生活中所有的快乐都抛在脑后,就好像它根本不存在一样。
This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.
作为一个男人,改变我们为人父母的方式,只有在我们想要的时候才会发生。它的改变是因为我们决心让它改变;而改变的动机往往来自想成为我们没有的那种父母。
What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!
经常发生的事情是——虽然我不是这种事情的特别受害者——有人会引用,或发明一个评论,然后被印出来,最后在网上成为货币。其中一些非常奇怪!
Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.
你要常常劝勉你全家、叫一切事奉你的人、都知道服事神、和你、是忠心劳苦的。又因神的旨意、凡事喜欢遵行你的旨意、凡事喜悦不违背神。
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时,我们常常发现,是那些人,他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法,而是选择与我们分享痛苦,用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
书籍构成的资本。图书馆里的书可以和房子一样长,可以保存几百年。因此,它不仅是一种消费工具,而且是一种相当可观的资本,而且就职业人士而言,它往往是他们人生中唯一的资本。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Do what you love and do it often.
做你喜欢做的事,经常做。
My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.
我的女主人公们,往往是那些陷入困境和反抗的人。
I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
我常说,没有什么比马的身体更适合一个人的了。
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
一个受过教育的人是这样的人:他知道,事实往往是,信息至多是不完整的,而且往往是错误的、误导人的、虚构的、虚假的——完全是错误的。
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
部分事实或半事实往往比完全的谎言更阴险。
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
把事情做好常常是浪费时间。