A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
因为
Because
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
因为在人类变化和进步的伟大空间里,有一段短暂的时间,某些人类的普遍目标在他身上得到了令人满意的体现。
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
谦卑是一种优雅,它在高尚的环境中闪耀光芒,但在卑微的环境中却无法同样闪耀光芒,因为一个人在卑微的环境中可能已经过于谦卑了。
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
虽然竞争法则有时对个人来说很难,但对种族来说却是最好的,因为它确保了适者生存。
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
我希望我的名字是布莱恩,因为有时人们会拼错我的名字,叫我布莱恩。这就像免费的赞美,你甚至不需要聪明地去注意它。
They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
他们告诉我,他们不再需要我的服务了,因为他们想加入一个青年项目,作为保持俱乐部运转的一种先进方式。我再也不会犯七十岁的错误了。
I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now.
我的意思是,酒吧本可以让他进行一次盛大的旅行。但他一点也不感兴趣。为什么?为什么他对世界不感兴趣?因为对他来说有个坏消息:他现在活在世上。
Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.
死亡来了,而不是幸福。因为当你试图寻找快乐的时候,你是在一个非常、非常模糊的雷区中航行,雷区充满了干扰、失望和欺骗。这就是为什么你必须为幸福而努力。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
大多数人失败是因为他们缺乏坚持去制定新的计划来代替那些失败的计划。
You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
你必须喜欢你的角色,因为如果你不喜欢,其他人也不会喜欢。
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
我不能告诉你天才是不是遗传的,因为上天没有给我后代。
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
我不能给你写一个关于政治的字,因为你是一个女人。
God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
上帝和死亡有点相似,因为只有当一个人死了,很多人才会尝试和上帝交谈。
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
有些事情没有按照你的计划去做并不意味着它毫无用处。