A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
普通
Ordinary
If you are unwilling to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
如果你不愿意冒不寻常的风险，你将不得不安于平凡。
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
偶尔，就在平凡的生活中，爱给了我们一个童话。
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
如果你不愿意冒不寻常的风险，你将不得不安于平凡。
I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.
我想我喜欢做的是从平凡开始，在平凡中发现非凡。
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
如果你的工作是用振奋人心的场面来装点普通生活，要么振奋人心，要么走人。
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
昂贵的广告用暗示和图像来吸引我们。普通的只是说，买。
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
我不认为我的电影是文学作品;它们是基于生活中最普通的事情。
The whole world is a series of miracles. But we are so used to them, we call them ordinary things.
整个世界是一系列的奇迹。但是我们已经习惯了，我们称它们为普通的东西。
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
在日常交谈中，有两件事是普通人不喜欢的——信息和风趣。
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
普通人以一种我们不太理解的方式投下了阴影。天才会发光。
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
很少有当代艺术家能比奥罗斯科更好地挖掘平凡与奇异之间的空间。
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
对于一个普通人来说，如果爱不意味着爱一些人胜过爱其他人，那么爱就没有任何意义。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
普通人最懦弱的行为之一就是对事实视而不见。
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
你能从普通人那里听到最好的故事。对我来说，那种即时性的感觉比许多文采十足、文采十足的故事更真实。当我读小说时，我想要那种即时性。
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
一个普通的人，只要有了磅数和五年的身世，就可以在平常的生活中，不慌不忙，不加任何压力地让自己的趣味受到影响，在自己的周围摆满书，而且都是用自己的语言写的，因此，他在这个世界上至少还有一个地位。
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
而诗人，在我看来，我认为大多数人的观点，的确是在说上帝的语言——它比普通人在日常生活中说的语言更好，更好，更高级。
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
在经历了巨大的失败之后，我不能满足于平凡的成功。
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
我被荒谬地高估了。没有超人&我很普通，&无论艺术效果如何，我都会这么说。在这一点上，我是少数几个说真话的人之一。