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。
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
艺术能洗去灵魂中日常生活的尘埃。
When we are judging everything, we are learning nothing.
当我们评判一切时,我们什么也没学到。
This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
我担心,这个世界是为打破无聊而设计的。
You can live life to please everyone or please yourself.
你可以为了取悦他人或取悦自己而生活。
I don't want to make money, i just want to be wonderful.
我不想赚钱,我只想做个出色的人。
Stop making exceptions for people who only make excuses.
不要为那些只会找借口的人破例。
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
每个人的生活中都应该有一个下东区。
I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
我认为过幸福的生活是幸运的抽签。
I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
只要你停下来想一想,我的生活就够丰富的了。
In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.
在我的公众生活中,我只是一个喜欢玩乐的人。
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
对聪明人来说,生活是一个问题;给傻瓜一个解决方案。
Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.
有些人的床很差,他们只能躺在上面。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
生活的艺术在于懂得享受一点,忍受很多。
Sitting and listening to a clock tick is not a waste of time, but rather an appreciation of it.
坐着听时钟滴答作响不是浪费时间,而是对它的一种欣赏。
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
人生最大的幸福,是坚信我们被爱着——因为我们本来的样子而被爱,或者更确切地说,即使我们有缺点,仍然被爱着。
If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.
如果人们和他们的生活方式在任何地方都是一样的,那么从一个地方搬到另一个地方就没有多大意义了。
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
人生最大的乐趣就是做别人说你做不到的事。
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
精神上的焦虑和饮食上的忧虑对健康的损害和对生命的破坏比人们通常想象的要大得多,如果能把它们的影响收集起来,那么它们在死亡帐单上所占的比例就不会是微不足道的了。