A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Order
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
我们嘲笑那些为了得到果实而砍倒树木的野蛮人的无知;但同样的错误是由每一个人谁是过度渴望和不耐烦的追求快乐。
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
她是心灵的朋友。她把我召集起来。我是碎片,她把它们收集起来,按正确的顺序还给我。有个女人是你心灵的朋友,这很好。
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
在我看来,艺术作品是物质世界中唯一具有内在秩序的对象,这就是为什么,虽然我不认为只有艺术才重要,但我相信艺术是为了艺术而艺术。
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
白人的血和骨头孕育了这个青铜种族,并在某种程度上给它留下了品质、倾向和能力,比如人类动物最高等级的遗传。
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
记忆在很大程度上取决于我们思维的敏锐性、规律性和秩序。许多人抱怨缺乏记忆,当缺陷是在判断;而另一些人,什么也抓不住,什么也抓不住。
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
只要人们愿意思考,世界上所有的问题都可以很容易地解决。问题是,人们常常为了不思考而使用各种各样的方法,因为思考是一项如此艰难的工作。
I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.
我开始做一些正确的决定,把事情整理好。这有点像打扫你的房子。我在寻找上帝要我做的事情的方向——就在那时,我接到了一个关于激情的电话。
I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.
我喜欢被给予一定的自由来解释或想出一些东西,但我确实喜欢合作。我希望能在向同事学习的项目中获得成功。
I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.
为了探索这种形式并收获它的价值,我将自己投入到简单的角色中。但是当你的第一个要求是讲一个相当直接的故事时,你在视觉上受到了限制。
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
为了在社会上获得成长和持久的尊重,如果你很有天赋,那么在你年轻的时候,给你所热爱的社会的右小腿狠狠一脚是一件好事。在那之后,做一个势利小人。
In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can't give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it's just been easier to be single.
为了能给女朋友足够的时间,你需要时间,而我不能给她。所以,与其自私或愚蠢到去谈恋爱,单身更容易。
My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.
我妻子志愿服务作为红十字会护士,坚持被派往前线,为了尽可能的靠近我,但它不发达以后,护士被允许走的更远比大部队医院在后方的实际操作。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.
在某种程度上,一个人能够从理性思维中获得稳定。
I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.
我是一个方法作家。为了写情感,我必须经历它。我的身体变得疲惫不堪,花了好几个小时。
Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.
当然,顺序在时间上都不同程度地向后收敛。
Come and say G'day!
来跟我说‘你好’!
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
今天艺术的任务是使混乱有序。