A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
快乐
Pleasure
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
在潜到快乐的水底时,我们带上来的沙砾比珍珠还多。
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
我相信每个人的心灵都能从对他人行善中获得快乐。
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
自满是一种快乐,伴随而来的是把自己当作原因的想法。
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
从值得赞美的人那里得到赞美,是一种无比的快乐。
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
当一个男人说他和一个女人在一起很快乐时,他并不是指谈话。
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
快乐是一根胡萝卜,悬在头顶,牵着驴子走向市场;或悬崖。
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
所有我真正喜欢做的事情要么是不道德的,非法的,要么是使人发胖。
We are all pleasure-seekers. We differ only in the type of pleasure we seek.
我们都是寻欢作乐的人。我们只是在寻求快乐的类型上有所不同。
For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure.
看在上帝的份上,如果你犯罪,就以犯罪为乐,并为快乐而犯罪。
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
悲剧的乐趣在于给存在于痛苦中的快乐蒙上一层阴影。
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
大多数人追求快乐的速度是如此之快,以至于他们匆忙地错过了它。
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
我们的快乐在质量上比在数量上有更多的不同。
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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
品味差时令人振奋的是冒犯他人的贵族乐趣。
My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.
我的信念是,“天堂”和“地狱”是隐喻性的术语,指的是你如何看待你的生活。在任何时刻,你都有能力让你的生活完全快乐或完全地狱。
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
习惯所带来的痛苦,以及遵循习惯所带来的内在乐趣,都是大自然赋予我们意志的动机,通常我们并不在意为什么要这样做;她有时甚至命令说,她的理由决不是我们的。
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
葡萄树上结着三种葡萄:第一种是快乐,第二种是陶醉,第三种是厌恶。
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
事实是,我们可以学会调整我们的思想、身体和情感,把痛苦或快乐与我们所选择的联系起来。通过改变我们把痛苦和快乐联系在一起的东西,我们会立即改变我们的行为。
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
重要的问题不是,什么能使人获得一些分散的快乐,而是什么能使他的生活总体上幸福。