A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人
Persons
No two persons ever read the same book.
没有两个人读过同一本书。
I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.
我知道,但我今年过得比胡佛好。
In planning an attack, persons have various roles.
在计划攻击时,人扮演不同的角色。
A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.
受过更好教育的选民可能会改变许多人投票的原因。
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
有些人,当他们不再使我们震惊时,我们也不再感兴趣。
Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
每个认真对待自己所做事情的人都必须不断地前进。
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
对身体不好的人的任性应该给予很大的体谅。
I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
一般来说,我发现对绘画研究最少的人是最好的评判者。
I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
我很少与我认为不愉快的人共事。丹尼斯,处理这个威胁是一种乐趣。
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
在艺术上著名的人分享了王子的不朽,并与他们建立了基础。
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
自私的人不能爱别人,但也不能爱自己。
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
每个人都有自己的勇气,却被出卖了,因为他在自己身上寻求别人的勇气。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
友谊是两个人为了促进彼此的幸福和幸福而产生的一种强烈的习惯性倾向。
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
令人遗憾的是,很少有人在取得某种程度的显赫或名望后,为自己写过纪念性的东西,至少像他们这样热爱自己的私生活和公共生活。
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
简而言之,自由不是每个人都有充分利用自己才能的自由吗?只要他这样做时不伤害他人。
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
不聪明的人就像长在好地上的杂草;他们喜欢被逗乐的程度与他们感到疲倦的程度成正比。
I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.
我被指责过于敏感,但我确实认为人们需要换位思考,才能指责别人过于敏感。
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
然而,学术机构还有另一个作用。当他们由少数以知识著称的人组成时,被列入他们的名单就成了雄心壮志的目标。