A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
可怜
Poor
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
菲律宾想要美丽。我必须看起来很漂亮,这样可怜的菲律宾人才能从贫民窟里看到明星。
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
永远不要为穷人穿便装。他们不会因此而尊重你。他们希望他们的第一夫人看起来像百万美元。
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
如果做事情就像知道该做什么一样容易,那么小教堂就是教堂,穷人的小屋就是王子的宫殿。
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
现代诗人反对商业,可怜的东西,但我们都为钱写作。新手要接受市场的考验。
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
现在国际象棋更有活力,现代棋手喜欢主动。但通常他们的防守很差。
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
我是新奥尔良一个非常贫穷的年轻黑人男孩,只是一张没有名字的脸,在贫困的大海中挣扎着求生。
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
哦,神经,神经;这台神秘的机器叫人!啊,使它精神错乱的小东西,我们是多么可怜的生灵啊!
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
向每一个穷人提供援助是远远超出每个人的能力和能力的。照顾穷人是整个社会义不容辞的责任。
Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
充分利用一切是……对付他们的方法太差劲了。我的一生就是一连串的逃离流沙。
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
我自己做的。这不是社会……它不是一个推动者,它不是瞎子,不是黑人,也不是穷人。都是我干的。
Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.
最重要的是,我不能生气。我若发怒,就把那惹我发怒的可怜人的一切牙齿,从他口中打掉。
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
经验要求人是唯一一种吞噬同类的动物,因为我无法用更温和的词来形容富人对穷人的普遍掠夺。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
他们又把我们包围了,可怜的混蛋。
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
财产不是神圣的权利。富人变穷是一种不幸,而不是道德上的罪恶。当一个穷人变得贫困,这是一种道德上的罪恶,充满了后果,有害于社会和道德。
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
我父亲出身贫寒,但我很幸运,因为我们从来没有需要过东西。我爸爸决心确保我们不需要任何东西。他想给我们更多的机会,让我们有更好的机会过上更好的生活。
I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.
我一直自称是一个可怜的滑头。
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
当富人想到穷人时,他们的想法很糟糕。
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
每个人的富有或贫穷取决于他的欲望和他的快乐之间的比例。