A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.
在追求幸福的过程中,聪明的人往往会降低自己的智商。
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
如果我问人们想要什么,他们会说更快的马。
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.
我知道我的工作是什么;那就是出去见见人们,爱他们。
Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
伟大的建议来自那些比你活得更久的人。
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
当人们可以随心所欲时,他们通常会互相模仿。
Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me.
女人是我唯一害怕的人,我从没想过她们会伤害我。
When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.
当你是正义的时候,你不需要告诉别人你是正义的。
Just because some people make bad choices doesn't mean they are bad people.
仅仅因为一些人做出了错误的选择并不意味着他们就是坏人。
People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.
人们倾向于过度使用任何能带来情感冲击的想法或概念。
You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
你可以从与你观点不同的人那里学到很多东西。
I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
我成为第一夫人纯属偶然。我不是由人民选举出来的,但我现在在这里。
I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.
我宁愿有十个人为此疯狂,也不愿有一万个人不疯狂。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
我确实认为提高意识的尝试已经成功。人们现在非常关注性别问题。
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。
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
人们常说“美在观者的眼中”,而我认为关于美最解放的事情就是意识到你是观者。这使我们能够在别人不敢看到的地方发现美,包括我们自己的内心。
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 don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
我不喜欢和总是同意我的人多说话。用回声去卖弄风情,一会儿是有趣的,但很快就会厌倦的。