A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
许多富人只不过是他们财产的看门人。
It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
不是我不能保守秘密。我告诉那些人不能。
A person all wrapped up in themselves makes for a mighty small package.
一个只顾自己的人构成了一个巨大的包裹。
I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.
我厌倦了试图让别人了解我的想法。我完成了。
This campaign is about giving people confidence the work is being done.
这项运动是为了让人们对正在进行的工作有信心。
People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.
想要其他信息的人必须非常努力地去寻找。
The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.
一般来说,参与电影制作的人越多,电影就越糟糕。
There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up.
我身上有种东西让很多人想吐。
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
当很多人找不到工作时,就会导致失业。
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
人们没有意识到一本书可以改变一个人的一生。
The common people only see weakness where there is greatness of spirit.
只有在有伟大精神的地方,老百姓才会看到软弱。
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
人们在冒险去做自己喜欢的事情之前,必须先经历真正的痛苦。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.
我周游了世界,令我惊讶的一件事是我可以与人交流。我的故事可能不同,但在情感上我们都是一样的。
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
看起来那么光荣的人都是显摆出来的;其实他们和其他人没什么不同。
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。
There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
没有坏天气这种事,只有软弱的人。
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
总是注意自己健康的人就像守财奴,他们囤积了大量的财富,却从来没有足够的精神去享受。