A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Rather
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
没有什么是真正有效的，除非你想做别的事情。
If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.
如果需要多次提高债务上限，我宁愿实现储蓄。
I would rather regret the things i have done than the things i have not.
我宁愿为我做过的事后悔，也不愿为我没有做过的事后悔。
I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.
我宁愿死在天堂，也不愿害怕做我认为正确的事。
I'd rather die tomorrow than to live a hundred years without knowing you.
我宁愿明天死去，也不愿活一百年而不认识你。
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
对我来说，世界是相当美丽的，如果你看它。尤其是自然。
I'd much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes.
我宁愿对一件事做一两次拍摄，然后看看效果如何。
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
我宁愿面前有一整瓶酒，也不愿做额叶切除术。
I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
我想我已经习惯了不被理解而不是被理解。
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
我们宁可说自己的坏话，也不愿完全不谈论自己。
I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken.
我是那种宁愿呆在家里也不愿给我拍照的人。
But I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
但我宁愿在我的坟墓里做一个自由的人，也不愿做一个傀儡或奴隶。
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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
我若自夸过于得体，我的借口是，我自夸是为人性，不是为自己。
I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.
我知道这听起来很疯狂，但是你必须让你将要做的事情找到你，而不是你去追求它。
When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.
当我曾经作为一名法学教授教授民事诉讼时，我会在一开始就告诉我的学生，民事诉讼是仪式化战斗的礼仪。这句话并非出自我之口，它抓住了一个要点，即和平、发达的社会通过法律而不是武力解决争端。
What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
破碎的就是破碎的——我宁愿记住它最好的样子，也不愿把它修补好，然后一辈子看着那些破碎的地方。
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
给我准备好的手，而不是准备好的舌头。
I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.
我只是想说，有高质量的材料，当我们改变它们的时候，应该有一种方法来改变它们，这样你就可以庆祝这种改变，而不是“把它们混在一起”。