A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
玩
Playing
What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?
我为什么要作弊?我总是和比我年长的人比赛。那么我为什么要作弊呢?
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
年复一年地在巨大的体育馆里比赛,你会觉得很遥远,你只能看到你面前一片漆黑。
It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.
这是一次披头士巡演的经历。它们不是很好。歌唱得很好,但演奏得有点差。
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
我喜欢演奏音乐,因为这是一种很好的生活,我从中得到满足。但是我不能满足我的家庭。
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
真的,我认为和你的朋友出去玩,和邻居的孩子一起玩,已经成为一种失传的艺术。
I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.
我可以告诉你:如果我有能力发号施令,我不会急于把别人的孩子送上战场。
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
世界上有很多好运气,但它就是运气。我们都不安全。我们是孩子,在网上玩耍或争吵。
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.
在学校里取得好成绩的人都是循规蹈矩的人,没有人会在以后的生活中靠循规蹈矩走得太远。
I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.
我很喜欢扮演贵族,可能是因为这太违反类型了。比扮演你自己有趣多了。
I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.
我当然不害羞,但我喜欢扮演它,因为我喜欢那些非常自信但仍然一团糟的角色。
You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.
你用不同的球路来接球,但当你面对一个手里拿着球棒的家伙时,情况就不一样了。
I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
我不知道我们是不是世界上最好的球队。我很幸运能和一些最好的球员一起踢球。这是一个梦。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'
扮演一个角色是安全的,但接着就像是,‘我到底是谁?’
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?
看看你的天然河流。你是什么?停止和自己玩游戏。你的河要去哪里?你要和它一起骑车吗?还是你在与之对抗?难道你没有看到,如果你和你的河流一起骑行,就没有任何努力了吗?
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
在最初的日子里,我经常觉得当我们玩的时候我在参加数学考试。这是一种需要证明自己的深刻感受。
If an enemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.
如果一个敌人打得很好让你很烦,考虑采用他的策略。
Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
演员们把自己塑造成另一个人,但我永远不会认为自己在扮演自己。想象成为另一个人是激励我的关键。所以当人们想了解我的时候,这让我有点紧张。
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
通过玩游戏,你可以人为地加快你的学习曲线来发展正确的思维过程。