A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愉快
Pleasant
If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.
如果我觉得自己的工作做得不好,不知道如何去做,或者我太害怕了,或者诸如此类,我就不是一个快乐的人,我也不快乐。我不喜欢和你在一起。
There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.
在日常生活中,有些人会觉得难以接受或不太愉快,但当你走上舞台,做同样的事情时,他们会觉得很迷人。
I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.
我通常每天都到岸上去,或是去办事,或是到田野里去消遣。田野里的景色非常宜人,尤其是雨季来临的时候,不时会下一阵雨。
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
我们知道有些事情并不像我们对自己说的谎言那么令人愉快,从这个意义上说,为了生存,每个人在日常生活中都忍受着一定程度的不诚实。
I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.
我要说的是,自从我们被俘以来,我们受到了一致的优待,在监狱里,我们同军官们的关系一直是亲切愉快的,他们的体贴和善良的性格使我们深为感激。
The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
第一,他们自称掌握了一门在他们的语言艺术中被恰当地称为艺术的东西,这是完全没有根据的;第二,他们把美好和快乐混为一谈,这是一个严重的错误。
A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.
一个儿童作家站在讲台上发表演讲不是一件令人愉快的事情,但我已经有点不情愿地陷入了与年轻人、文化素养和青年正义有关的问题中:看看我们被关在监狱里的年轻人的数量,就知道了,这些年轻人毫无用处。
The particular way I'm going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won't be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.
我的死亡方式并不会特别令人愉快。这可能会让我的身体感到不舒服,而且对我的妻子和孩子来说,观看比赛也不是件容易的事。我想这将是一个真正的挑战,看看我是否能挤柠檬足够努力,仍然得到柠檬汁在过去几周。
KEEP EXPLORING
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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
年轻有十个脚趾头是一件令人愉快的事。
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
没有明智、良好和公正的生活是不可能过上愉快的生活的。不过一种愉快的生活是不可能明智地、良好地、公正地生活的。
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
如果我们找不到任何令人愉快的东西,至少我们会找到一些新的东西。
Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
教书是我做过的最愉快的事。
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
过去看起来总是比过去好。只是因为它不在这里才令人愉快。
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
人们以三种方式来评价事物:有用的、令人愉快的或快乐的来源、优秀的、或本质上令人钦佩的或光荣的。