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。
Some people are so blessed that they can find inspiration in any environment.
有些人是如此幸运,他们可以在任何环境中找到灵感。
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
生活就像下水道。你从中得到什么取决于你投入了什么。
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
我的生活准则就是把工作当作一种乐趣,把乐趣当作我的工作。
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
你永远找不到一杯足够大的茶或一本书足够长来适合我。
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
学而不思则罔,思而不学则殆。
I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
我试着过一种正直、干净的生活,而不是树立任何不好的榜样。
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
在你发现生活是一个自己动手的项目之前,你已经花了半辈子的时间。
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
经历:最残酷的老师。但你学会了,我的上帝,你学会了。
The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.
世界上最漂亮的房子是你为自己建造的。
A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
生命不是用小时和分钟来衡量的。重要的是质量,而不是长度。
The only people that should be in your life are the ones that make you smile.
生命中唯一应该出现的人,就是那些让你微笑的人。
Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.
顺其自然。人生的课程总是在最令人惊讶的时候出现。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
不要辜负期望。走出去,做一些非凡的事情。
It's not so much what we do that matters, but what kind of person we choose to be.
重要的不是我们做什么,而是我们选择成为什么样的人。
Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
和别人在一起的每一分钟都是你生命的一部分,也是他们生命的一部分。
Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.
判断使我们无法理解新的真理。把自己从旧的判断规则中解放出来,为新的理解创造空间。
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
你寻求的安全感越多,你拥有的安全感就越少。但是,你越寻求机会,你就越有可能获得你想要的安全感。
Life is too uncertain. You must seize happiness where you find it.
生活太不确定了。你必须在找到幸福的地方抓住它。