A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
之前
Before
If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.
如果你在开始写作之前做了足够的计划,你就不可能有写作障碍。我一章一章地做一个完整的提纲。
Like nothing you've ever seen before watch closely as I open this door. Your jaws will be on the floor after this you'll be begging for more.
就像你从未见过的一样,仔细看着我打开这扇门。你的下巴会在地板上,在这之后,你会乞求更多。
All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.
我想说的是,我正在扮演许多不同的角色,说实话,这些角色比我以前扮演过的任何角色都更有趣,要求也更高。
There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.
我想做一些事情,如果我能重新回到以前的状态,处理我感兴趣的问题,这对我来说很兴奋。
I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.
在有人知道什么是诵读困难症之前,我就患有诵读困难症。我被称为“慢性子”。认为自己“慢”是一种可怕的感觉——这太可怕了。
I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.
我认为设定一个目标,得到一个你想要的视觉形象。你必须先看到你想要达到的目标,然后才能去追求它。
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
使第十四条修正案产生的目的是在法律面前人人平等,而平等,而不是分离,被写进了法律。
Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.
然而,当一个人怀疑一个人知道一些他以前从未听说过的关于生活的事情时,他会感到不安,直到他知道他要说什么为止。
The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
正确的时机满头是毛:当它被错过的时候,你不可能把它找回来;它的后脑勺秃了,而且从来没有回过头来。
Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.
为什么我们不能在养老院旁边建孤儿院呢?如果有人坐在摇椅上,不久孩子就会坐在他的腿上。
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
我父亲是哈佛大学化学系的教员;我母亲在结婚前读了一年的物理研究生。
Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.
在过去的几年里,随着科技的发展,世界变得比以往任何时候都更小、更一体化。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
生活过了一半,我们才知道它是什么。
Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.
凯蒂威特。她是最终的竞争者。她在比赛前总是看人不顺眼。她在冰上毫不留情。
It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.
其实很有趣,因为那还是我们约会的时候。他会接到所有这些电话,因为据说在我们分手之前,我们已经在交易中分手了,在破衣烂衫中分手了。
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.
从更广泛的意义上说,我们将必须审查各项保障计划,确保这些计划能够在这些家庭遭受更大损失之前抓住他们,特别是在失业救济、儿童保健援助和寄养方面。
The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
阻止过去的唯一办法就是在它发生之前阻止它。