A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
地球
Planet
We talk so much about leaving a better planet to our kids, that we forget to leave better kids to our planet.
我们谈论太多关于给我们的孩子留下一个更好的地球,以至于我们忘记了给我们的星球留下更好的孩子。
I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
我不认为这个星球上的每个人都应该有一个孩子。我从来没有想过要个孩子。
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
来自一个没有鲜花的星球上的人会认为,我们一定是高兴得发疯了,才会有这样的事情发生在我们身上。
The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
地球会生存下来。我们是在这里享受生活,还是像我们所知道的那样享受生活,这是值得怀疑的。
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
我可以向你们保证,妇女们在一起工作——相互联系、相互了解、相互教育——能够给这个被遗弃的星球带来和平与繁荣。
If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.
如果我们都只考虑自己的利益,我们正走向集体灾难——看看我们对地球气候所做的一切。
That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.
这是我们这个时代的一个讽刺之处:正当我们处于医疗保健水平大幅提高的边缘之际,我们也在烹饪这个星球。
Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.
两百多年前,这个星球上的大多数人都只知道他们成长的环境。
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
一个人忠于他的俱乐部比忠于他的星球容易;规章制度较短,他与其他成员有私人关系。
We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.
我们在地质尺度上改变了地球的物理、化学和生物特性。我们没有留下地球上任何一个地方没有被破坏过。
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
我们如何使用我们的家园,我们如何生活和污染地球是可怕的。这在我小时候就很明显了。现在更明显了。
I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
我不认为这个星球…他们正在谈论如何扭转这里的环境问题,但我认为已经太晚了。
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When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.
当我们有了和平,那么我们就有机会拯救地球。但是,如果我们不能在和平中团结起来,如果我们不实行有意识的消费,我们就无法拯救我们的地球。
The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?
在我看来,地球在我们死后还会存在。即使这是一个被污染的星球,他们把它搞砸了。它们从这里到另一个星球去了哪里?
What planet have these people been living on?
这些人一直生活在哪个星球上?
Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.
事情是否会好转取决于我们做了什么。我们不应该把时间花在规划未来上,而应该认识到我们的前进目标:为历史和地球尽我们所能。
You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
你知道,在我看来,我是这个星球上最幸运的猫。
It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.
对于男孩来说,看到女孩占据了地球的一半是非常重要的——我们也是这样做的。