A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
比赛
Race
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
冠军将是第一个实现她的梦想，而不是社会的梦想，她自己的个人梦想。
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
对于一个优越的种族，作为人类对超凡圣洁和美德的自命不凡，似乎……荒谬。
Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
种族，那是什么?比赛是一场比赛，有人赢，有人输。血不能在比赛中流淌!来吧!
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
只有居住在世界各地的国家和民族才有狮子的心。我很幸运地被叫去吼叫。
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
但是黑人女性呢?我最真诚地怀疑，是否有其他任何一个种族的女人，能在这样一场恶魔般的大火中，把自己的美丽带上来。
We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.
我们要么作为人类解体，要么突破自我，重新理解作为人类是什么。
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。
When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
当我开始这项运动的时候，我想回到游泳池，我想比赛，我想参加奥运会。我仍然想做所有这些事情。
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.
如果我们某天早上醒来，发现每个人都是同样的种族、信仰和肤色，到中午我们就会发现造成偏见的其他原因。
You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.
你必须在比赛前减压。我教我的心放松。我在比赛前躺了下来。就在比赛前，它给了我更多的能量。
I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races.
我每年都去看大奖赛，每一场比赛我都在电视上看。我可能会参加三、四场赛车比赛和三、四场一级方程式比赛。
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
每一项对现有条件作出重大改变的大胆尝试，每一项对人类新的可能性的崇高设想，都被贴上乌托邦的标签。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I save the race for the race and I don't let it all out in practice.
我把比赛留到比赛的时候，我不会在练习中把它全部释放出来。
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。
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
如果一个民族没有历史，没有有价值的传统，它就会成为世界思想中一个微不足道的因素，它就有被消灭的危险。