A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
我们自己
Ourselves
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
我们是如此习惯于掩饰与他人，以致于假以时日，我们来欺骗和掩饰与我们自己。
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
与我们斗争的人能增强我们的神经，磨练我们的技巧。我们的对手是我们的帮手。
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
我们总是被自己的边缘所吸引，被那些有点生涩和紧张的边缘所吸引。
As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy... the diary is pretty full.
随着我们活得越来越长，越来越健康，我们需要让自己忙碌……日记写得很满。
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
对我们所爱的人的愤怒和仇恨使我们的心刚硬，但是轻蔑和怜悯使我们沉默和羞愧。
We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around.
我们在演播室里努力工作，但是当我们休息的时候，我们会走出去看看周围。
We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.
我们在这个星球上只存在一次，把自己局限于熟悉的事物是对我们思想的犯罪。
We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
我们不能让自己偏离轨道，不管发生什么，我们必须坚持我们的自然游戏。
We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.
我们必须非常严肃地看待我们所做的是对还是错，因为我们一直在输。
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
在战争中，我们认同国家，国家的利益就是我们原始自我的利益。
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
当伟大的和解者死亡降临时，我们忏悔的绝不是我们的温柔，而是我们的严厉。
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
我们厌倦了一切，除了把别人变成笑柄，并为他们的缺点而庆幸自己。
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
在我们准备过高估计别人的时候，可能有一种恶意的成分——可以说，我们是在为自己积累一种乐趣，以便以后把他们的身材缩小。
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
经过几个月的饥寒交迫，我们突然发现自己能吃上一顿神赐的美餐了。
Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.
人类是一种偷火的动物，我们无法不去制造机器和机器智能，即使我们时不时地使用它们，不仅是为了比自己更聪明，而且是为了把我们带到末日的门口。
The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
重要的是，无论我们是否有信仰，总的来说，我们对人们是非常宽容的，不管他们的观点是什么。
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
所有的变化，即使是最渴望的变化，都有其忧郁之处;因为我们留下的是我们自身的一部分;我们必须先死一种生命，才能进入另一种生命。
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
我们的敌人是我们的恶行和他们的记忆、我们的骄傲、我们的自私、我们的恶意、我们的激情，这些都是我们的良知或习惯无情地追逐着我们，无情地超越了形象所能表达的力量。