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。
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
我们靠得到的东西生活,但我们靠给予的东西生活。
I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.
我实际上是在用我选择的材料来生活。
Sometimes, the best things in life come out of the worst situations.
有时候,生活中最美好的事情都是在最糟糕的情况下发生的。
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
生活不是一个需要解决的问题,而是一个需要经历的现实。
Everyone in life has their challenges, mine have not been financial.
生活中每个人都有自己的挑战,我的却没有。
Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.
妇女们用剩下的残羹剩饭拼凑起她们的生活。
I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.
我喜欢现实。我爱这个世界。我喜欢它的味道。我爱它。
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
自由的生活方式提出目的,却没有规定方法。
Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
不管发生什么,时间和时间在最难熬的日子里流逝。
What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
我们所不能忍受的将我们从生活中除去;剩下的可以承受。
No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on couch.
不管你走得有多慢,你还是把每个人都抱在沙发上。
If you want to achieve greatly in life, be a student of achievement.
如果你想在生活中取得巨大的成就,那就做一个有成就的学生。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
在大多数情况下,生命之战是一场艰苦卓绝的战斗;而不经过斗争而赢得它,也许就是不带荣誉地赢得它。没有困难就没有成功;如果没有奋斗的目标,就不会有任何成就。
When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.
当你长大了,你就会知道生活是一门关于谦卑的漫长课程。
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
过好每一个季节;呼吸空气,喝饮料,品尝水果。
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
教育是一个社会过程。教育是成长。教育不是为生活做准备;教育就是生活本身。
Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.
与生活不同,你对自己的故事或多或少有完全的控制权。这并不是说你可以让角色做任何你想让他们做的事——如果你把工作做好了,他们通常会有自己的生活。
No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue.
任何人都不应该通过向别人许诺一些他们知道是不真实的东西来误导别人。