A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
你能想象现在的年轻人为了好玩而学习三角函数吗?我所做的。
You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
你有很多人在忙，真的没有时间坐下来吃一顿均衡的饭。
You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.
你希望人们使用你的产品，因为它是你生活的一部分，然后他们不能停止使用它。
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
你不能通过为别人做他们能做和应该做的事来永久地帮助他们。
I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.
我想我和其他人的感觉有点不同。出于某种原因，我从未觉得自己长大了。
The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.
天空把黑夜藏在它的后面，把下面的人们从上面的恐怖中庇护起来。
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
在城市里，没有人是安静的，但许多人是孤独的;在乡下，人们很安静，但很少有人感到孤独。
I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.
我精力充沛，喜欢和人打交道，所以有很多人在身边不会让我感到害怕。
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
有些人有天赋，有些人被天赋所吸引。当这种情况发生时，天才就变成了诅咒。
Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.
有些人因缺乏工作而受苦，有些人因缺乏水而受苦，更多人因缺乏智慧而受苦。
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
一致性违背自然，违背生命。唯一完全一致的人都死了。
I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
我认为，很多人希望人们记住他们过去的样子，而不是现在的样子。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
如果一个人今天没有比昨天更聪明，我认为他没有多大价值。
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。
You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.
你知道，在我的音乐生涯中，曾经有那么一个时刻，讽刺是如此沉重。我的听众中有些人就是我患上神经症的原因。这些折磨我生活的人，用我的艺术，我的诗歌，作为他们的燃料，来折磨别人。
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
对于大多数人来说，他们认定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。
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。