A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成为
Become
Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.
还有什么工作能比宇航员更棒?谁不想当宇航员?这是我的问题。
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
一个人的头脑总有办法在幕后发挥作用，他的意图突然变得清晰起来。
The best part is seeing my kids grow and become individuals, and the fact that they're happy and well-adjusted.
最棒的部分是看到我的孩子们成长，成为独立的个体，以及他们快乐、适应能力强的事实。
When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?
什么时候——什么时候一个人打出全垒打却忘记怎么打剩下的比赛变得正常了?
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
等级、特权和好运所赋予的责任可以……变得非常繁重。
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
我并不想成为一名演员，因为和我母亲的竞争将会非常激烈。
Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.
听着，我只是个说书人。当我拍电影的时候，我从来不想让电影成为社会宣传的工具。
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
于是，一个最近变得越来越紧迫的问题开始了:美学与政治的关系是什么?
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
只有思想才能相似。它类似于它所看到、听到或知道的东西;它变成了世界提供给它的东西。
But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.
但就我个人而言，我并没有成为一名演员的野心。我对幕后工作很感兴趣。
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
通过确定最佳策略并不断重复，直到它们成为习惯，在生活的任何领域取得成功。
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
许多女性未能成为一名出色的厨师，其根源在于她未能培养出对刀具的工人般的重视。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When you become senile, you won't know it.
当你老了，你不会知道的。
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
你知道有多少百万富翁是通过投资储蓄账户致富的吗?我的案子告一段落。
There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.
做你不应该做的事情有很多值得说的，而做你应该做的事情的回报更微妙，需要更长的时间才能变得明显，这可能会降低它的吸引力。但你的人生是你在大楼建成后绘制的蓝图。
I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'
我想我已经越过了任何一扇窗户，在那里我突然间会惊人地变得肌肉撕裂，以至于人们会说，‘哦，天哪，你怎么了?’
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.
这种物质的形式是多种多样的，变化是千变万化的，在它的生命状态中，有一个大家熟悉的生理学名称，那就是原生质。
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。