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。
Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.
街道和公园树木为城市提供了巨大的好处。
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
友谊使生活的美好倍增,使邪恶减半。
Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.
因为我们没有钱,也没有什么文件,所以什么也没有。
Whether you think you can, or think you can't. You're right.
无论你认为你能,还是认为你不能。你是对的。
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
生命是怀疑,没有怀疑的信心不过是死亡。
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
一个明显不受欢迎的事实是,生活有时会阻碍你。
If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.
如果命运不让你笑,你就是不懂这个笑话的意思。
Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
演艺圈就像高中一样,只是你有薪水。
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
我的弱点一直是食物和男人——按这个顺序。
And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.
在这种严酷的生活结构中编织着音乐。
Never miss a sunrise or a rainbow because your gaze is down.
永远不要因为你的目光是向下的而错过日出或彩虹。
It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.
不是拥有你想要的,而是想要你拥有的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.
你可以自由地赋予生活意义,不管你想赋予它什么意义。
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
如果一个人忽视了教育,他就会跛着脚走到生命的尽头。
Seek happiness now within you. Don’t look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will to be strong minded and the readiness to face the next challenge with a smile.
现在就在你的内心寻找快乐。不要去其他任何地方,也不要去寻找任何人来帮助你给你的生活带来快乐。幸福是我们赢得战斗的奖赏。幸福来自坚强的意志和微笑着面对下一个挑战的准备。
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
另一方面,尽管如此,人们在生命的关键时刻接触诗歌。
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.
必须记住,生活的悲剧不在于没有达到你的目标。人生的悲剧就在于没有目标。
You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?
你只有一次生命,如果你不做你喜欢的事,那又有什么意义呢?