A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
当我早上看到板球场时,我几乎知道会发生什么。当我开始和在那里工作的人交谈时,我开始找到我想要的东西。
I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
我对那些组织起来实现目标的人印象深刻,他们相信自己可以做出改变,然后就去做。我认为这是不可思议的。
It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.
我们的劳动人民,如果不能获得分配给他们的适当的脂肪供应,就不可能保持他们的全部力量。
There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
世界上有许多人奋斗不息,他们拥有所有的天赋,但由于某些原因,他们并不成功。你永远不知道这些事情为什么会发生。
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
有些人看到这些东西会问,为什么?有些人梦想从未有过的事情,并问,为什么不呢?有些人不得不去工作,没有时间做所有这些。
Then, like the innocent Forest People, for a moment we will live in a world created by a God so benevolent that, when there is trouble, we will know that He must be asleep.
然后,像无辜的森林人一样,我们将暂时生活在一个由仁慈的上帝创造的世界里,当有麻烦的时候,我们将知道他一定是睡着了。
I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.
有一天,我终于决定,通过阅读当时的科幻杂志,我可以做得至少和其中一些人一样好。所以我最终做出了认真的努力。
People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.
人们过去认为我们只是在伪造那些东西……这些都是事先写好的,排练过的。事实上,它看起来就像拼凑起来的一样,只是我们做得不太好。
Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.
破产是这个国家帮助人们重新开始的长期承诺。这个原则从来没有给过某些人一个全新的开始。
What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.
让我惊讶的是,当人们给我他们的手机号码。有一天,公车上有人问我敢不敢发誓。我说过我尽量不这么做,但我当然只是一个普通人。
If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this will lead us to prayer: Intercession is a way of loving others.
如果我们真的爱别人,我们对他们的渴望将远远超过我们所能给予他们的,这将引导我们祷告:代祷是爱别人的一种方式。
I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.
我了解到,世界各地的人们基本上都是一样的,有着和我们一样的目标。他们想要健康、幸福和为家人提供生活的机会。
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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。
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
在意别人的想法,你就永远是他们的囚犯。
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
在我们准备过高估计别人的时候,可能有一种恶意的成分——可以说,我们是在为自己积累一种乐趣,以便以后把他们的身材缩小。
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。
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
很多人没有意识到机遇的存在,是因为它总是穿着工装裤走来走去,看上去像在努力工作。