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。
If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.
如果我的真实生活有报道的一半令人兴奋,我会很兴奋。
Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games.
也许我生命中最美好的时光就是看着孩子们玩他们的游戏。
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
对我来说,尽管生活有种种困难,但它是一件光明的东西。你必须冒这个险。
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
尽你所能;这就是美好生活方式的全部哲学。
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?
生活中最持久、最紧迫的问题是:“你为别人做了什么?”
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
没有一种私人生活不是由更广泛的公共生活所决定的。
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
懒惰远非万恶之源,相反,它是唯一真正的善。
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
没有人意识到有些人花费巨大的精力只是为了保持正常。
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
人生格言:你教会别人如何对待你,你就会在生活中得到怎样的对待。
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
我爱睡觉。当我醒着的时候,我的生活有崩溃的倾向,你知道吗?
Sometimes you not as appealing as you'd like to be rejection is apart of life.
有时候你并不像你想的那么有吸引力,被拒绝是生活的一部分。
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.
年龄是一个暴君,他以生命为代价,禁止一切青春的欢乐。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
友谊使生活的美好倍增,使邪恶减半。
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
最浪费的一天是我们没有笑过的那一天。
Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
生活不应该是非此即彼的。我们能做得更多,你知道吗?
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
生活不是寻找自我。生活就是创造自己。
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。
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
我们从日常生活中知道,我们首先是为他人而存在的,因为他们的微笑和幸福决定了我们自己的幸福。