A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经常
Often
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
但是,由于许多人努力获取知识而不是生活得很好,他们经常受到欺骗,从他们的劳动中收获很少或没有好处。
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
不可忘记的是,我们所谓的信仰的理性基础,往往是为我们的本能辩护的极度非理性的尝试。
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
人们常常注意到,在激情的激励下写出好诗的人,在其他情况下却写不好。
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
矫揉造作是一定的畸形;年轻人以荒诞的方式塑造自己,一开始是可笑的,最后往往是邪恶的。
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
我承认,只要一提到社会学,那些在智力和文化上活跃的人的眼睛就会变得呆滞,而且往往有充分的理由。
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
名声是行动的回声,向世界发出响亮的声音,只是回声只重复最后一种艺术,但名声与一切有关,而且往往比一切都重要。
I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.
我教过统计学和数学课程,我发现如果你经常用代数方法教他们公式,你会让一组孩子做得很好。
So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
因此,对我来说,与更大的公司一起工作常常是非常令人满意的,这正是因为我有能力将关键的大规模投入到特定的工作中去。
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
小说就像一张蜘蛛网,也许有那么一点点附着,但仍然附着在生活的各个角落。这种依恋往往难以察觉。
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候,却给他们插花。
I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.
我很高兴有很多吉他手尽其所能地追求技巧,因为这给我这样的人留下了一个广阔的空间。
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
懒惰的人往往是无聊的,无聊的人,除非他们睡得多,是残酷的。在我们这个时代,无聊和残酷是人们最关心的事情,这并非偶然。
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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。
It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'
是一位以为自己快死了的老朋友寄来的。无论如何,他说,生与死的问题不常发生,感谢上帝,所以不要把每件事都当作是生与死。更容易去。”
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
有道德的人常常为他们所受的约束和他们所激发的无聊而报复自己。
Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.
因此,一个年轻的企业往往以很大的比例增长。成熟的企业很少这样做。
I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.
我经常被问到为什么我如此喜欢扮演男性角色。事实上,我更喜欢的不是男性的身体部位,而是男性的大脑。