A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
地方
Place
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
首先，上帝创造了傻瓜。那是练习。然后他制作了校董会。
Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.
巴黎是一个获取信息的理想之地，而威尼斯是一个思考和写作的地方。
I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.
我只是去我的后花园。这是唯一一个人们不会来打扰你的地方。
That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.
这是一个很难把你的手指放在世界上的地方——它需要说明。
Somebody told me that this is the place where everything's better and everything's safe.
有人告诉我这是一个一切都更好，一切都很安全的地方。
I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.
我在同学中有些格格不入;我不能像他们那样放荡不羁。
We have everything from folk to punk, but it doesn't help that there is no place to play.
从民谣到朋克，我们什么都有，但没有地方玩也无济于事。
Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed.
一旦弥撒恢复到应有的位置，我们将再次看到唱诗班得到发展。
I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
我在一个小地方长大，很小的时候就离开了这里，进入了一个更大的世界。
If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
如果这个角色是真实的，这部电影就会到位。或者至少这是你所希望的。
This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
这个地方吗?没有积极的。好的，我想说一些积极的事情。这绝对是个垃圾场。
If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
如果我们真的对犯罪采取严厉措施，我们会在一开始就采取更多措施来阻止它的发生。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.
首先你想知道它们是不是独立的故事，但是不，它们不是，它们是偶然的故事，它们形成了一种模式。你从岛上的一些地方开始书中的女主人公回到了那里。
Some people look for a beautiful place, Others make a place beautiful.
有些人寻找一个美丽的地方，另一些人使一个地方美丽。
I'm all over the place.
我到处都是。
I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning," she said. "How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.
我没有失去。我得到了第二次。这仍然是胜利，”她说。“我怎么会对第二名不满意呢?”有一百万人愿意处在我的位置。
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
戏剧在名词之前是动词，在地点之前是行为。
Second place is just the first place loser.
第二名只是第一名的失败者。