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 very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.
我很乐意谈论我的个人生活,因为它太无聊了。
A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.
洗个澡,吃块里脊牛排。那是一个人一生中最辉煌的时刻。
Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life.
危险使生命珍贵。死亡是生命的永恒危险。
Start here & go until you die, he said. What's so complicated about that?
从这里开始,一直到你死,他说。这有什么复杂的?
Love is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.
爱是世界上最好的东西,也是寿命最长的东西。
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
生活是世界上最珍贵的东西。大多数人是存在的,仅此而已。
Live. If you mix the letters up in the words like and love, you get live.
生活。如果你把“喜欢”和“爱”这两个词的字母混在一起,你就能活下来。
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
生活不应该是别人给我们的小说,而应该是我们自己创造的。
It’s what you do in your free time that will set you free—or enslave you.
是你在空闲时间做的事情让你自由,或者奴役你。
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
我照顾我的花和我的猫。和享受食物。这就是生活。
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
没有一点证据支持生命是严肃的这一观点。
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
作家必须涉入生活,如同涉入大海,但只能涉入肚脐。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
在生活中被击倒是理所当然的。站起来继续前进是一种选择。
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
人生最大的幸福,是坚信我们被爱着——因为我们本来的样子而被爱,或者更确切地说,即使我们有缺点,仍然被爱着。
If you wait until all lights are green before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
如果你等到所有的灯都亮了才离开家,你永远也不会开始你的登顶之旅。
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
当然,这颗心里有一些东西是不会腐烂的,而生命不仅仅是一个梦。
All of us are in the manufacturing industry - manufacturing either our own happiness or unhappiness.
我们所有人都从事制造业——制造自己的幸福或不幸。
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
记住,今天就是你昨天担心的明天。