A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
许多人不会想到进入新闻业,就像污水处理行业一样——这至少对我们所有人都有好处。
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
如果你不能完全按照自己的意愿塑造自己,你怎么能指望别人完全符合你的喜好呢?
You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.
你从不给别人写信——你尽你所能写最好的,希望别人也有同样的感觉。
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
教育和通知全体人民……他们是维护我们自由的唯一可靠的依靠。
You can never understand why people do stupid things for love, unless you, yourself experience how it is to be in love.
你永远不会明白为什么人们会为爱做傻事,除非你自己亲身体验过恋爱的滋味。
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
人们会忘记你说过什么,做过什么,但他们永远不会忘记你给他们的感觉。
The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving.
“旧车换现金”计划取得了巨大成功,部分原因是它让人们感觉到经济正在复苏。
People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
人们在选举中没有投左票或右票。他们投票赞成结束所有原始的政治史。
People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
人们认为我想要表达一种时尚,因为我从来不穿胸罩。其实我心里是个假小子。
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.
我为不喝酒的人感到难过。他们早上醒来,这是他们一天中感觉最好的时候。
Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell.
大多数人自以为是,只会说一些令人讨厌的肤浅的话,换句话说,他们非常讨厌。
A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seeing what other people don't see. And pursuing that vision.
很多我们归因于运气的东西根本就不是运气。而是看到别人看不到的东西。并追求这一愿景。
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It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.
如今,推广某项产品的成本如此之高,以至于几乎总是把安全作为首选选项,回顾过去成功的产品。而且,人们根本没有时间去发展,去发现他们自己和他们的观众,就像我们一样。
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。
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
告诉我们要服从本能就像告诉我们要服从人一样。人们会说不同的话,直觉也是如此。我们的本能处于战争状态…每一种本能,如果你听从它,都会声称以牺牲其他本能为代价而得到满足。
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
这些有钱人对当代音乐很感兴趣。他们想帮助传播它,让别人知道它。
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
许多政治家习惯于把它作为一个不言自明的命题,即在人们能够充分利用他们的自由之前,没有人应该是自由的。这句格言就像古老故事里的傻瓜,他决定在学会游泳之前不下水。
Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.
一个月又一个月,巫师学院为那些想有所作为的人提供装备。这就是为什么记者、科学家、艺术家、教育家、企业主、广告专业人士和部长们都被我们的小学校所吸引。