A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
棒球
Baseball
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.
你知道，当我还是个小男孩的时候，我经常在我的后院或在街上和我的兄弟或邻居的孩子打棒球。我们用坏了的球拍和塑料高尔夫球打了好几个小时。
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
我现在喜欢做一个老漫画演员。这就像一个老足球或老棒球运动员。你进入了名人堂，这很好，但你不再是那个在聚光灯下做那件事的人。
I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
我正在办理离婚。这是第二个，就像棒球一样，我不会三振出局。我已经一个人住了五年了，我很舒服。我可以在我想弹吉他的时候弹。
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
棒球界一直有这样一种说法，你不能成为一个击球手，但我认为你可以提高一个击球手。比你能提高一个外野手更多。击球失误比比赛的任何其他部分都要多。
Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.
在第九局卖啤酒对棒球最有利吗?可能不会。这条规则必须有更明确的定义。然后应该设立一些程序，法官不同时是上诉法官。
Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
棒球运动是一种缓慢、迟缓的运动，经常会有细小的干扰，这给观众提供了许多机会，让他们可以从容地思考球场上的情况:这就是球迷最喜欢这项运动的地方
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
你不能坐在领先的位置上，把几个球打到线内，就这样消磨时间。你必须把球扔过那个该死的盘子，然后给另一个人他的机会。这就是为什么棒球是所有运动中最伟大的运动。
Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during that World Series. There wasn't a single nasty message. Everybody tried to say something nice.
嗯，我知道我永远不会忘记这一点，但我也不会忘记在世界大赛期间给我写信、发电报和明信片的数百人。没有一条肮脏的信息。每个人都想说些好听的话。
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.
你知道我们的棒球比赛是从年轻人开始的。意思是男孩。当你成为一个男孩，长大后知道如何打球，然后你来到这些男孩面前，他们代表着今天我们国家的娱乐活动。
It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.
很简单。我们要求棒球坦白交代，澄清事实。棒球官员要么是认真地想让他们的运动摆脱兴奋剂，要么就是想把这个问题掩盖起来。到目前为止，我们还没有看到太多关于前者的证据。
Maintain 'baseball cards' and/or 'believability matrixes' for your people. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
为你的员工维护“棒球卡”和/或“可信矩阵”。想象一下，如果你有棒球卡，上面显示了所有的性能数据。你可以看到他们做得好与不好，并呼吁正确的人以一种非常透明的方式扮演正确的角色。
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
当我早上醒来时，我想到棒球。我整天都在想这件事，晚上做梦。我唯一不去想它的时候就是我在玩它的时候。
I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
我只是一个每天都想在阵容中看到自己名字的人。对我来说，棒球是一种近乎痴迷的激情。
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
当词语被恶意使用时，就像棒球棒一样。
Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.
打棒球是我的梦想，再多的钱也不能改变我的想法。
See the ball; hit the ball.
看到球;击球。
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
我本来想成为一名棒球运动员，后来我遇到了一个叫做弧线球的东西。这让我很沮丧。