A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
牧师
Priest
I shall always be a priest of love.
我将永远是爱的牧师。
I wanted passionately to be a priest.
我热切地想成为一名牧师。
A priest's pocket is not easily filled.
牧师的口袋不容易装得下。
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
诗人是无形的牧师。
Priests return to the temple, merchants to the shop.
牧师回到寺庙,商人回到商店。
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
如果你想失去信仰,和牧师交朋友。
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
直到末后的王被末后祭司的肠子勒死,人才能得自由。
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
战争是政治家的游戏,是牧师的乐趣,是律师的笑话,是受雇刺客的职业。
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
他们的厨房是他们的圣地,厨师是他们的祭司,桌子是他们的祭坛,肚子是他们的上帝。
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
并且众人都乐意审判祭司,好像他不是披着肉体的,不是承受人本性的。
A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.
一个已婚的牧师很可能把他的职业看作是一份工作——当然,这份工作既艰苦又报酬微薄——但牧师被视为社区的支柱,只对他的教区居民和他的上帝负责,而不是对妻子和孩子负责。