A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成为
Become
You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being.
你不会和一个人结婚;你和三个人结婚:你认为他们是什么样的人，他们是什么样的人，他们会成为什么样的人。
I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.
我认为现代人有一种被小玩意和机器主导的趋势，让我们越来越远离我一直在谈论的东西。
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
妈妈对我说:“如果你是一名士兵，你就会成为一名将军。”如果你是个和尚，你就会成为教皇。”相反，我是个画家，后来成了毕加索。
I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
我看到很多同龄人都成为了超级明星，而名声和财富开始真正影响他们对待他人的方式，我认为这很丑陋。
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
艺术产生丑陋的东西，而丑陋的东西往往随着时间的推移而变得更加美丽。另一方面，时尚产生的美丽的东西总是随着时间变得丑陋。
What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
地球的不同寻常之处在于，从字面上讲，语言已经活了下来。它感染了物质。它在复制、定义和构建自己。它就在我们身上。
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
为了取得医学资格，我需要大量的学习，这让我感到震惊。渐渐地，我的愿望被一个更热切的——也是更隐秘的——想成为一名演员的愿望削弱了。
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
任何一个成年人，只要他认为自己像过去的父母和老师一样，可以变得内省，唤起自己的青春去理解他面前的青春，他就迷失了。
The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.
问题在于，曲棍球杆图成为了一个图标，反对者认为，如果他们能砸碎这个图标，全球变暖的整个概念就会随之毁灭。
Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.
高尔夫球变得如此精致，如此完美。果岭，球道。我不喜欢高尔夫球车。我喜欢散步。有些俱乐部不让你进去，除非你有球童和手推车。
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
好画有什么用?我们想要在我们存在的视觉部分施放一个咒语!我们很少真正看到这个世界，但当我们看到时，我们就像一幅画一样静止。
The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.
一个好公民不使用这种破坏性的手段变得更富有的原因是，如果每个人都这样做，我们都会因为相互的破坏性而变得更穷。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
有神，却没有神;所有的神最终都会变成恶魔。
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
我的第一个学位比第二个学位早了好几年。我本想成为一名物理学家，但我的微积分不及格。
Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.
哈佛产生的领导人。拥有哈佛学位的人会成为国家教育部门和全国公立学校的高层管理者。
Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.
然而，总的来说，我所走过的这片土地不太可能成为文明人常去的地方，或者只会成为一个孤立的地方，作为与一个更富饶的国家连接的纽带;如果这样一个国家存在于西部。
I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.
我可以说，我对自己的信仰变得更加开放了。
And at the touch of love, every one becomes a poet...
每一个沐浴在爱河中的人都是诗人。