A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.
我注意到，当人们开玩笑的时候，他们通常非常严肃，当他们严肃的时候，他们通常非常有趣。
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
我们在下议院有一条格言，写在我们房子的墙上，那就是古老的方式是最安全、最可靠的方式。
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
悲伤的人不喜欢快乐，而快乐的人不喜欢悲伤;思维敏捷的人稳重，粗心的人忙碌而勤奋。
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
我从不同的人那里一点一点地了解到这个故事，通常在这种情况下，每次都是一个不同的故事。
I'm a serial monogamist. I'm not one of those people that can date loads of people at the same time, it's all too complicated.
我是一个连环的一夫一妻制者。我不是那种可以同时和很多人约会的人，这太复杂了。
Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
许多人认为兴奋就是幸福……但是当你兴奋的时候，你并不平静。真正的幸福是以和平为基础的。
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
普遍地启发人民，身体和精神的暴政和压迫就会像邪恶的幽灵一样在黎明时分消失。
Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.
有时候，在一起很长一段时间的人开始想象过去的事情会变得更好，即使事实并非如此。
There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.
只有那么多滑稽的演员，所以当他们异花授粉时，人们认为总是同样的演员和导演。
I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.
我觉得如果你不能走进一个房间，拿起一件乐器去娱乐人们，你就不是一个真正的音乐家或艺人。
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
有明确、书面目标的人在短时间内完成的事情比没有目标的人想象的要多得多。
Don't trust people whose feelings change with time... Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.
不要相信那些感情随着时间而改变的人。相信那些即使时间改变了，感觉依然不变的人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.
人们喜欢八卦。这是娱乐产业发展的最大动力。
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
生活中的许多失败是人们在放弃时没有意识到他们离成功有多近。
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
说任何一个人都不适合自由，就是让贫困成为他们的选择，说他们宁愿背负重税也不愿不负担。
My dad used to say all the time to go out and win this inning. It's one pitch, one inning, one game at a time. It sounds ridiculous, but people who are good at doing it have more success.
我爸爸以前总是说要出去赢这一局。这是一个投球，一局，一场比赛。这听起来很荒谬，但擅长做这件事的人会更成功。
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
现代的悲剧之一是，人们开始相信某人过去说过的一些话，可能是为了说明或挑衅的目的，实际上代表了那个人当时的信仰。
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.
做一个有趣的人对你有很多好处。你觉得你不应该对别人太认真。他们不期待你这么做，他们也不想看到你这么做。你没资格严肃，你是个小丑。