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。
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
用今天的语言来描述我有限的闲暇时间，我总是默认阅读。
Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call happiness.
爱你的生活。这是通往幸福的捷径。
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
阅读是我最喜欢的职业，当我有空闲的时间和书籍阅读。
A library is books and somewhere to put them and some people who want them there.
图书馆是书，是放书的地方，是想把书放在那里的人的地方。
To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
活着就要战斗，维护生命就要战斗人类所代表的一切。
Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
生命如此短暂，我们不能错过像双层芝士汉堡这样美好的东西。
You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
你不能离开已经成为你的传记的房子。
I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.
我只知道在不同的国家长大——对我来说，这很有趣。
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
聪明人，即使所有的法律都被废除了，仍然过着同样的生活。
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
在我们所有的财产中，时间是最宝贵的，也是最易腐烂的。
I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.
我其实喜欢独处。我晚上大部分时间都在看书和长时间洗澡。
If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?
如果没有什么神秘的东西留给我们去探索，生活会变得相当枯燥，不是吗?
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.
生活的真谛不在于伟大的胜利和伟大的失败，而在于简单的快乐。
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
就像一个晨梦，我们活得越久，生命就越明亮，一切的原因也就越清晰。以前困惑我们的似乎不那么神秘了，当我们接近终点时，弯弯曲曲的小路看起来更直了。
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧。不要麻烦自己去找新的东西，无论是衣服还是朋友。万物不变，是我们在变。卖掉你的衣服，保留你的思想。
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
一个人的真正价值在于他从自我中获得解放的程度。
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
记住，今天就是你昨天担心的明天。
Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.
爱就像月光或雷声，或雨点落在半夜的铁皮屋顶上;这是生活中真正值得知道的事情之一。