A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
比赛
Race
Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.
上车,做我该做的,然后回家。我们再也没有做任何事情的自由了。
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
当你在一场三角旗比赛中,你不能想着全垒打。
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
事实是,我们的种族幸免于无知;是我们的科学天才将使我们陷入困境。
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
民族是政治独立的奇迹;种族是物理类比的原则。
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
做一个穷人是困难的,但是在一个金钱的国度里做一个贫穷的民族是最困难的。
Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.
实际上,整个人类都被催眠了,因为它按照别人的吩咐去思考。
If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.
如果有人认为自己受到性别、种族或背景的限制,他们就会变得更受限制。
If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
如果你对颜色那么敏感,没有幽默感,那就不要嫁给你的种族以外的人。
To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!
参加三级方程式比赛风险很大,我不会冒险的。感谢上帝,我没有这么做!
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
从历史上看,人们并不理解第十四条修正案禁止基于种族的种族隔离。
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
最重要的是,我不指望一个聪明的种族会不惜巨大代价,释放出一支自我复制的机器人大军。
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
我生命中的很多事情都发生在巨大的、美妙的好运的爆发中,然后我就会争分夺秒地去配得上它。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
进步的残酷被称为革命。当它们结束时,我们意识到:人类受到了粗暴的对待,但它已经进步了。
When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.
当我坐进车里的时候,我爱我的妻子和孩子胜过一切,但我没有想过这方面的事情。我想的是赛车,我想的是比赛,我想的是如何让赛车更快。
Slow and steady wins the race.
稳扎稳打才能赢得比赛。
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
老鼠赛跑的问题是,即使你赢了,你仍然是一只老鼠。
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
种族的集体教育依赖于书籍;它们是记录、延续和传播思想的唯一工具。
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
在数学上,我们早就控制不住自己,放弃了一场无望的竞赛。