A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
时期
Period
I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.
我不担心这个时期是当代的还是三百年前的。人类都是一样的。
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
的未来。在这段时间里，我们的事业蒸蒸日上，我们的朋友是真诚的，我们的幸福是有保障的。
Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
抚养孩子是生活中极为重要的一部分。我认为最重要的时期之一，或者说最重要的时期之一。
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
教育是一段时间，在这段时间里，你受到一个你不认识的人的指导，关于一些你不想知道的事情。
We have no choice but to bounce back. This was a tough loss, but we can't dwell on it. We have to come back and be a little better tomorrow -- period.
我们别无选择，只能重新振作起来。这是一个惨痛的损失，但我们不能沉湎于此。我们必须回来，明天会更好一点——就是这样。
In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.
在文法学校，有些女生对我有意见。我的脸太苍白了。我的头发太长了。那是黑人意识的时期，我感觉很糟糕。
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
那么什么是悲剧呢?在伊丽莎白时代，人们认为以死亡结尾的戏剧是一场悲剧，但近年来，我们开始明白，活着有时比死亡更悲惨。
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.
有一段时期，我称之为“爵士音乐的黄金时代”，大约从三十年代中期到六十年代，我们有很多伟大的创新者，他们创造的东西将在世界上持续很长一段时间。
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
人一生中最幸福的时期大概是中年，那时青年的热切的激情冷却了，老年的疾病还没有开始;正如我们所看到的，影子在早晨和晚上都是那么大，到了中午几乎完全消失了。
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.
有一段时间，我第一次搬到纳什维尔，就像头几年一样，我完全迷失了。我不知道我是谁;我真的不知道我在这里做什么。我本想成为一名歌手，但我只是感到失落。就在那时，我开始寻找我的生身父母。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I've always wanted to do a period piece.
我一直想做一件复古的作品。
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
文学小说是由女性保存下来的。女性会读更多小说，仅此而已。
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
天赋不过是长时间的专注和短时间的精神同化。
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
在麦卡锡时代的鼎盛时期，作家们受到了迫害。
If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.
如果你做不到而且做得很好，你就做不到，就是这样。