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。
I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!
我不害怕死亡。我恐怕永远没有机会活下去了!
Life's up and down from the time you get here to the time you leave.
生活起起伏伏,从你来到这里到你离开。
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
现在的时间比其他时间都有一个优势——那就是我们自己的时间。
The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.
君子欲讷于言,而敏于行。
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
生活的目的是被越来越大的事情打败。
Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil.
生活既不是善也不是恶:它是一个善恶并存的领域。
It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.
这是一个伪装的职业,一个面具的职业。我们在生活中都有面具。
Given how we agree life's a miracle we sure do bitch about it a lot.
考虑到我们都认为生活是一个奇迹,我们肯定会抱怨很多。
Life is pain, anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
生活是痛苦的,任何跟你说不同的人都是在推销东西。
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
真正的乡村音乐是诚实、真诚和真实生活的极致。
It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
我想生活就是这样。不管发生什么事,你都要处理。
Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
不知何故,生活并不总是对那些坚持不懈的人有所回报。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
希望就像太阳,当我们朝着它前进的时候,它把我们重担的影子投在我们身后。
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
朋友就是这样一个人,他了解真实的你,知道你去过哪里,接受你现在的样子,但仍然温柔地让你成长。
A smile doesn't always stand for a perfect life.
微笑并不总是代表完美的生活。
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.
人生是座迷宫,我们在学会走路之前就走错了方向。
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
这是生活的真正秘密——全身心地投入当下正在做的事情。与其把它叫做工作,不如把它叫做玩耍。
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
过着日复一日、不求更多、收获着生活简单美好的人是最幸福的。