A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
国人民
Peoples
It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
它有一种从街上溜达而来的神气,袖子里藏着几招,如果大家都能放松一下,请大家放松一下,它会尽其所能,异想天开地消磨时间。
On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.
一方面,我们公开宣布各国人民一律平等;另一方面,在我们的移民法中,我们在实践中接受了这些我们憎恶和口头谴责的理论。
I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.
我认为新闻网络之间的竞争是非常好的,就这一点而言,所有的网络都是如此。它吸引了越来越多的人来看新闻。
The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing.
事实上,我有这样一个问题,人们…你知道,我的个人背景是什么,这必须要引起人们的注意。对我来说,坦白地说,这完全无关紧要。
People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
人是不同的。人们选择不同的标准。但如果在众多选择中有一个更好的方法,我想通过让它更舒适来鼓励这种方法。这就是我想做的。
Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful.
能认识我一生都崇拜的人,能以这样一种方式认识他们,让他们来扮演我从未见过的完全不同的角色,真是太棒了。
I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
我对竞技场并不疯狂,因为我可以把它们卖出去。这对我的自尊没有任何帮助。我想玩的地方,人们不必坐在流鼻血的座位上,想知道到底发生了什么。
I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.
我不知道你们其他人怎么样,但我几乎每天都会因为这样或那样的事情感到压力和紧张。我认为这是一件事,当我看着人们的眼睛时,我想我和几乎所有人都有同感。
I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
我把自己看作是这个星球的公民。甚至当我还是个孩子的时候,我就发现为自己的团队加油是愚蠢的。人们说他们自己的球队比其他球队好,只是因为这是他们的球队,这让我很困惑。
The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.
到目前为止,联合国在整个卢旺达问题上一直非常令人失望,尽管他们派出了这些人,我也毫不怀疑他们的能力,但最终,决定将由其他人做出,而不是他们自己。
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
然而,所谓的现代教育,尽管有其种种缺陷,但对别人的好处却远远大于对黑人的好处,因为它是根据那些奴役和压迫弱小民族的人的需要而制定的。
I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world.
我想让“我肉中的肉”成为我与社区的纽带,我想说我的人民在想什么,吸收他们所有的痛苦。我明白了,当我把它全部吸收进去时,我可以让一个兄弟的痛苦被全世界所理解。
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What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.
如果人们愿意倾听那些知道得更多的人的意见,而不仅仅是想从那些拥有更多的人那里得到一些东西,世界将会是多么的不同。
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
你所做的将成为你将要做的事情的评判标准——尤其是在别人的心目中。当你旅行的时候,你就是你现在所在的地方。人们不会对你的过去耿耿于怀。没有昨天在路上。
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
从事智力工作的人更有意识,更容易集中注意力。
The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
大多数人的问题是,他们用希望、恐惧或愿望来思考,而不是用头脑来思考。
You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.
有两个人在南达科塔很有名,很受尊敬。我们将看到这一切是如何发生的。
You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
你知道,在那些日子里,没有人能像今天这样掌控人们的事业。