A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
质量
Quality
I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.
我想我不会住在西北以外的地方。我认为波特兰的生活质量非常好。人们从高强度、高强度的工作中搬到波特兰，工作时间减半，生活质量提高一倍。
There are still an awful lot of assets that have been evaporated but not written down. People are looking for a quarter with bad news so they can write it all off at once. Asset quality is lower than it has ever been.
仍有大量资产被蒸发，但没有减记。人们在寻找一个有坏消息的季度，这样他们就可以一次性把它一笔勾销。资产质量比以往任何时候都低。
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
如果我们能通过纳米技术的进步降低成本并提高医疗技术的质量，我们就能更广泛地解决普遍存在的医疗条件并减少人类的痛苦。
I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.
我觉得隐私的质量和对人们个人空间的尊重已经完全瓦解了。你可以要求拍照。我很高兴能拍下这张照片，摆出各种姿势，拍出好看的照片。
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.
一个地方——一个房间、一座建筑或一座城镇——的生活模式越多，它作为一个整体就越有生命力，它发出的光芒越多，它就越有自我维持的火焰，这是一种没有名字的品质。
There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.
实际的工具有一个可爱的特性。人们对能使手服从大脑的东西感觉如此亲切。此外，人们对它感到极大的尊重;没有它，大脑和手将是无助的。
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
奇迹与理性的好奇心原则相联系，是一切知识和发现的源泉，甚至是虔诚的原则;但是，以惊奇结束并满足于惊奇的惊奇，才是白痴的品质。
There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
戏剧有一种动态的特质这种动态的特质表现在，首先，它所处的环境;然后是观众，观众的本质，观众的质量。
A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.
很多运动员都有明星的素质，但他们就是不能在镜头前表演。所以，不管你有多漂亮，不管你有什么样的风度，你仍然要成为一个有说服力的表演者，才能成为明星。
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
如果你能以同样的方式对待输赢，那将是一个巨大的成就。这种品质很重要，因为它会伴随你的余生，而且网球之后的生活将会比你的网球生涯长得多。
I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.
我喜欢水上的城市。我喜欢水元素，尤其是大海。我在海上长大，我在航海中长大——我热爱航海——大海的存在赋予了空气和光线一种非常特别的品质，这是我绝对崇拜的。
Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
然而，我相信对高质量软件的需求是存在的，总有一天人们会认识到，在开发和使用基于安全的结构化语言的谨慎的结构化方法方面进行投资是值得的。
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Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
热情(名词):区分没有知识的爱的品质。
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
环境质量得到了极大的改善，而经济活动的增长则是由于从汽油中除去铅这一简单的权宜之计- -使铅无法进入环境。
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
没有一种习惯或品质比虚伪更容易获得，也没有一种东西比否认我们内心的情感和行为准则更容易学会。但是，每一种激情的种子都是与生俱来的，没有人不带着它们来到这个世界。
Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
然而，组织的存在与它们所受道德规范的范围成正比。因此，组织的持久性取决于领导的素质;这种品质来自于它所依赖的道德的广度。
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
这一切都是为了提高生活质量，在工作、朋友和家庭之间找到一个快乐的平衡。
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
我们审视自己生活的光线质量直接影响着我们所生活的产品，以及我们希望通过这些生活带来的变化。