A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
So many people go though life waiting for things to happen intead of making them happen.
很多人一生都在等待事情发生,而不是让它们发生。
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
词汇不会太老,只有当人们过于频繁地使用相同的词汇时,他们才会显得太老。
It's sad to think about how many beautiful people are living every day hating themselves.
想想有多少美丽的人每天都在憎恨自己,这是令人难过的。
Don't waste your life trying to impress other people. Do what you love, love what you do.
不要浪费你的生命去试图给别人留下深刻的印象。做你爱做的,爱你所做的。
To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
对那里的人来说,棒球是一项简单的运动。但它很复杂。这从来就不容易。
When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own.
当我在做一场音乐会时,人们把手举到空中,他们是在自己做这件事。
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
我发现我对普通人的关注被强大的力量所追逐。
The people who actually do things always suffer the slings and arrows of those who don't.
真正做事的人总是遭受那些不做事的人的冷箭伤人。
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
激起人们反抗的不是真正的痛苦,而是对美好事物的品味。
There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world.
没有什么比让人们意识到他们在这个世界上的价值更有价值的了。
It means something for us to know that history and get some feel for who the people were.
对我们来说,了解历史,了解人民是谁,是有意义的。
All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.
我所有最好的朋友都是死人。总有一天我会弄清楚这是怎么发生的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
坚持不懈的人从别人失败的地方开始成功。
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
没有人有足够的记忆力成为一个成功的说谎者。
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
历史的概念本身就意味着学者和读者。如果没有一代文明人来研究历史,保存历史记录,吸取历史教训,并把它们与自身的问题联系起来,历史也将失去其意义。
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
死亡过去常常在生命的壮年宣布它自己,但现在人们拖得太久了,有时我们似乎到了不得不宣布死亡的时候。就好像一个人死的时候需要一种特殊的力量,而不是最终的弱点。