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 can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
我不能回到昨天——因为那时我是一个不同的人。
That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
钱能说话,我不否认,我曾听到过一次:它说,‘再见’。
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
生命的本质是大规模的统计非概率。
They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen.
他们在巴西过着我从未见过的快乐生活。
We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.
我们总是匆匆忙忙地赶着去赴约或赶着赶最后期限。
We find comfort in routine and in the warmth of our own living rooms.
我们在日常生活和自己温暖的客厅里找到了舒适。
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
生活就像一辆十速自行车。我们大多数人都有从未用过的齿轮。
The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.
我演过的最好的剧院,就在这间客厅里。
I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.
我一直挥杆很卖力。这就是我这辈子一直在做的事——成功。
Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.
优雅地变老是一回事,但试图延缓衰老则是另一回事。
You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.
你不是生活在你想要的地球上,你是生活在你拥有的地球上。
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
当然,因为害怕失去而避免依恋,就是避免生活。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
生活在感恩中有一种平静,一种宁静的喜悦。
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
有些人能感觉到雨。其他人只是被淋湿了。
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
真正的战士战斗,不是因为他恨眼前的东西,而是因为他爱身后的东西。
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
生活充满了悲伤,就在我们允许自己爱别人的程度上。
The world is not to be put in order; the world is in order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
世界没有秩序;世界秩序井然。我们应该使自己与这一秩序保持一致。
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
生活的目标是稳固的,而生活的方式是完全流动的,所以你永远不可能真正实现这个目标。