A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人
Person
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
如果一个人觉得他无法沟通，他至少可以闭嘴。
You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.
你是我所见过的唯一一个能把书店撑得这么久的人。
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
我不相信教条和神学。我只相信做一个好人。
My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
我今天关心的不是一个人的头发有多长，而是他的行为举止。
The thing is, we're all really the same person. We're just four parts of the one.
问题是，我们都是同一个人。我们只是一个整体的四个部分。
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
没有人比那些什么都想做却什么都做不了的人更痛苦。
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
一个好的讲故事的人是一个有很好的记忆力的人，并且希望其他人没有。
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
每个人都会犯错误，但只有傻瓜才会坚持错误。
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
要想成为作家，一个人是愚蠢的。他唯一的补偿就是绝对的自由。
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
一个悲观主义者?这是一个和乐观主义者非常熟悉的人。
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
任何一个有荣誉的人，宁可失去他的荣誉，也不愿失去他的良心。
I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
我希望看到一个人——只有一个人——能够承认自己是个懦夫。
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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
每个人都是他自己的创造，是他自己思想和信仰的形象。每个人的想法和信仰都是如此。
I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
我是个注重隐私的人。我害怕别人知道事情。
I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.
我不明白约会是怎么回事。如果我对某个人感兴趣，我马上就知道了，我不想让他们把钱浪费在我身上，如果我知道我对那个人不感兴趣，我就带我出去吃饭。
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
一个受过教育的人是这样的人:他知道，事实往往是，信息至多是不完整的，而且往往是错误的、误导人的、虚构的、虚假的——完全是错误的。
I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.
我喜欢工作。工作带给我的自尊和满足感让我成为一个更好的人，让我成为一个更好的妈妈。我感到幸运，因为我有一星期只工作一两天的奢侈。
It is fun being a strong person. You feel invincible like you can face anything that comes your way. But you know what sucks being one ? Actually, it is really a damn thing because when people know that you are strong, they think that it is okay to hurt you, over and over again.
做一个坚强的人很有趣。你觉得自己所向无敌，就像你能面对任何事情一样。但你知道什么最糟糕吗?事实上，这真的是一件该死的事情，因为当人们知道你很坚强的时候，他们认为伤害你是可以的，一次又一次。