A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
现在
Present
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
对现在的责任不忠的人，会把织布机上的一根线弄断，当你解开一生的织布时，你就会看到效果。
We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
我们是一个左右为难的民族。我们是一个追求未来的民族。我们是一个寻求民族共同体的民族。
You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
你必须喜欢现在;如果你的生活不是二手的，如果你认为它以前更好。或者未来会更好。
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
肉体独自承受现在的风暴;过去的、未来的以及现在的思想。暴食是一种精神上的欲望。
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
今天的我们来自于昨天的思想，今天的思想创造了明天的生活:我们的生活是我们思想的创造。
Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
目前的法律有一个程序来确定病人是否处于持续性植物人状态，政客们怎么想都不应该成为问题。
It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were.
这是认识论传统的特点，向我们展示部分场景，然后要求完整或直言不讳的答案。
When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.
当我走出去展示自己最好的一面时，我想让自己看起来与众不同，但我不想让自己看起来像穿着戏服。
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
这是我的意图，通过摄影媒介，直观地观察自然世界，这可能对观众有意义。
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
然而，目前我不认为网络是一个很好的书籍媒介，书籍应该是真正便宜的轻量级平装书，你可以到处乱扔。
When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.
当你出名的时候，你不可能遇见别人，因为他们希望你喜欢他们在你面前的样子，而你看不到真正的人。
I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
我喜欢用两到三种不同的方式展现自己，因为我从来没有想过要满足于已有的成就，成为人们所期待的那种人。
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What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
我所热爱的是历史，而我对政治的兴趣只在于它是当下历史的横截面。
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
在这一刻做到最好，会让你在下一刻处于最佳状态。
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
未来并不比现在更不确定。
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
现在是过去下的一颗蛋，它的壳里有未来。
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
政治是暂时的，但方程式是永恒的。
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
我们必须与过去打交道，只有这样我们才能使它对现在和未来有用。