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。
Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.
目标是连接活动和成就的链条上的一环。
The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress.
恐惧的目的是提高你的意识,而不是阻止你的进步。
Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.
虽然我对食物的胃口越来越弱,但我对书的渴望却始终如一。
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
虽然生命是短暂的,但我们却因粗心地浪费时间而使它变得更短。
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
我做过的最勇敢的事就是在我想死的时候继续我的生活。
I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
我把每一天都活得充实充实,从不为小事而烦恼。
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
立方体是对生命本身的一种模仿,甚至是对生命的一种改进。
Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
事故不会发生在那些把事故视为人身侮辱的人身上。
You can travel the world and never leave your chair when you read a book.
你可以环游世界,读书时不离开椅子。
If you want to be in peace, radiate peace for others make everyone happy.
如果你想保持平和,那就为他人散发平和的气息,让每个人都开心。
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
天才和疯狂之间只有一线之隔。我把这一行擦掉了。
Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.
幸福不是一种存在的状态。幸福是一个载体,它是运动。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Take a good book to bed with you - books do not snore.
带一本好书上床睡觉——书不会打呼噜。
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
小说家的作用……就是以他的眼光来评价生活。
Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities.
即使面对困难,也要追求自己的目标,把逆境变成机遇。
Life doesn't have a remote, get up and change it yourself.
生活没有遥控器,自己动手去改变吧。
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
写作的需要来自于对生活的理解和发现自身价值的需要。
Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.
只有审视自己的个人偏见,我们才能真正成长为艺术家;只有培养同理心,我们才能真正成长为人。