A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
生活
Life
从日常选择、人与人的相处,到面对变化时的态度,这些句子记录了不同的人对生活的理解。读英文原句,再对照中文,留意那些与你的经历相呼应的表达。
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
成功不是永久的,失败也不是致命的。
Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
不要自欺。革命不会倒退。
When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
当生活给你柠檬时,把它扔回去。
A smile doesn't always stand for a perfect life.
微笑并不总是代表完美的生活。
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
时间是一个人能花的最宝贵的东西。
Perhaps gratitude and love are one and the same.
也许感恩和爱是一回事。
I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.
我活在一个我永远不想醒来的梦中。
Silence is not weakness and decency is not pride.
沉默不是软弱,正派不是骄傲。
Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.
生活不是一出歌剧。场景属于舞台。
You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
你不能改变你是谁,只能改变你在做什么。
Never forget: we walk on hell, gazing at flowers.
永远不要忘记: 我们走在地狱, 盯着花。
Going back to something is harder than you think.
回到某件事上比你想象的要难。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.
没有书的房子一定很凄凉。更可悲的是,一个没有人的书屋。
In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.
在这个专业化的时代,人们为能把一件事做好而感到自豪,但如果他们只知道这件事,他们就会错过生活能提供的许多其他东西。
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
为了个人利益而故意弄虚作假是学者或艺术家在工作或生活中所能达到的最后、最糟糕的深度。
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
教育孩子的目的是使他在没有老师的情况下也能过得好。
Don't live to impress people that really couldn't care less about you. That's wasting your life.
不要为了取悦那些不在乎你的人而活。那是在浪费你的生命。