A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
其他人也没有发现,这使我很困惑。上帝走了。我们是年轻的。我们已经超过了他。为什么他们看不见?这仍然让我困惑。
I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.
据我所知,真正全身心投入音乐的人很少,所以我一直试着把自己放在两个扬声器之间的沙发上听音乐。
Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.
有些人愿意为此付出代价,这和保持健康或健康饮食是一样的。这涉及到一些纪律。有一些牺牲。
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
也许我天真地认为人们理解幽默是什么,它是人类发明的,用来应对生活中的黑暗、问题和恐惧。
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
我认为人们被孤立是因为人类意识的本质,当他们感觉到自己和他人之间的联系时,他们喜欢这种感觉。
When people hurt you over and over, think of them as sandpapers. They scratch and hurt you. But later, you'll shining and polished while they end up useless.
当人们一次又一次地伤害你时,把他们当成砂纸。它们会抓伤你。但后来,你会擦亮它们,而它们最终却毫无用处。
I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be "seen through," or, even worse, instantly hated.
我想我只是不喜欢在不太熟悉的人面前露脸,因为我希望被人看穿,或者更糟的是,被人立刻憎恨。
I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.
我工作了很长时间,我喜欢这份工作。你知道,对我来说不这样做很难。我想我一直在努力工作,因为我有机会和优秀的人一起玩。
It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.
说脑力劳动和体力劳动的人应该交税是不公平的,但是用资本谋生的人不应该交税。
He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.
他很枯燥,但也很有趣……我认为当我做我的行为时,人们往往会感到奇怪。除非你是个爱讽刺的人,否则这不是一个适合你呆的地方。
With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
她带着两个人和行李上了飞机,吸了四英寸深的水。两支独木舟的桨能使她在适度的水流中以合理的速度前进。
Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.
让别人远离你,拒绝爱自己,这些都不会让你变得强大。如果有的话,它会让你变得更虚弱。因为你这么做是出于恐惧。
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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
最成功的政治家是用最响亮的声音说出人们的想法的人。
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
客人就像鱼一样,过了三天就开始发臭。
I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.
我对约会游戏一无所知。我不知道如何和一个特定的人交谈并建立联系。我只是认为你必须一个人一个人地去,尽可能地与人相处。
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。
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。
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.
如果我留在智利,我想我不会成为一名作家。我将被困在家务琐事中,在家庭中,在人们期望我成为的那个人里。