A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
也许
Perhaps
Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
也许他们把爱写进书里是对的……也许它不能生活在其他任何地方。
His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
他对某些美好信条的信仰也许是错误的;我敢肯定,他的一生总是对的。
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
把你的问题活在当下,也许即使你不知道,你也会活在某个遥远的日子里,直到得到你的答案。
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
一个人对自己的性格、信息和能力的赞扬,也许比他所谴责的更可靠。
What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.
然而,也许比我们所见过的海啸死亡人数更值得注意的是,我们还没有看到最近有多少人死亡。
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
我们所知道的是,莎士比亚用英语给一个年轻人写了也许是最杰出的充满激情的爱情诗。
But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you and allah know while you know not.
但也许你恨一件事,它对你是好的,也许你爱一件事,它对你是坏的,安拉知道,而你不知道。
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
我们说一个带着娃娃的女孩期待着妈妈的到来。也许,更真实的情况是,大多数母亲仍然只是带着玩具的孩子。
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
谦卑是一种优雅,它在高尚的环境中闪耀光芒,但在卑微的环境中却无法同样闪耀光芒,因为一个人在卑微的环境中可能已经过于谦卑了。
In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.
事实上,北美的历史可能更深刻地受到人类从过去家园继承的影响,而不是现在家园的外貌特征。
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
一个人爱另一个人;这也许是我们所有任务中最困难的,是最后的、最后的考验和证明,所有其他工作都只是准备工作。
I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation.
我认为可以说,我们是这个国家有史以来最有影响力的皇家委员会之一,我们所说的一切都与当前的形势有关。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
某些罪不应得到教会宽恕的见证,这一原则也许一点也不新鲜,但已在各教会得到应用;然而,也许没有严格的一致性。
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
也许,美德只不过是心灵上的礼貌。
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
我成为画家也许要归功于花儿。
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
但是,也许我们其他人可以在科学鉴赏、科学奇迹、科学思维方式和科学思想史等方面单独上课,而不是在实验室里体验。
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
对死亡的恐惧从来没有在我的意识中发挥过很大的作用——也许是对我缺乏想象力。