A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经常
Often
Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
群众常常被掠夺而不自知。
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
外表的判断常常失败,内心的判断永远不会。
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
艺术中的美往往只是被抑制的丑陋。
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
平庸的人往往拥有最渊博的知识。
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
虚幻的快乐往往比真正的悲伤更有价值。
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
很多时候,随便你怎么说,无赖只不过是傻瓜。
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
图画破坏墙壁的次数比装饰墙壁的次数要多。
A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.
在处理自我怀疑方面,小说往往是一个较长的过程。
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
名利常使作家虚荣,但很少使他骄傲。
I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.
我经常演很严肃的角色,但实际上我是一个大小丑。
Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.
成功或失败往往是在画板上决定的。
I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.
我经常从事我最讨厌的工作。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
旁观者往往比旁观者更能判断比赛的结果。
Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
任何传递给潜意识的想法,只要足够多,足够令人信服,最终都会被接受。
The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.
具有讽刺意味的是,我们这个社会群体的每个人都经常有这种感觉,但这种感觉中却没有任何同伴。想想庞德的重点,出路是通过门。
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
每个小说家都有不同的目的,而且常常是几个相互矛盾的目的。
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。
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。